Sitemaps & Google Crawl Error Message

[Rick]

Hi. I have done our website using FrontPage 2003.

I am not sure if the issue that I am having is a sitemap issue or something
else but I thought that maybe someone here would know.

I went into Google Webmaster Tools and into the Diagnostics section and
looked at the Crawl Errors section and saw that I have two categories of
Crawl errors that I did not know how to fix and was not sure if this was
related to my sitemap.htm and sitemap.xml

The first category of crawl error that I am getting is "In Sitemaps" and it
is telling me that I have 13 errors here and it provides me

The URL - If I click on it then it goes to the right page
Detail - "Redirect Error"
Linked From - "Unavailable"
Detected - a fairly recent date

The second category of crawl error that I am getting is "Not Follwed" and it
is telling that I have 16 errors and it provides me

The URL - If I click on it then it goes to the right page
Detail - "Redirect Error"
Detected - a fairly recent date

I am not sure if these are effecting our ranking in Google's organic search
and if so what do we need to do to fix them?

I know this is maybe a bit off topic but I would appreciate any information
that can be provided as the information on Google's site did not tell me what
I was supposed to do, if anything to fix what is going on.

Thank you.


Rick Bellefond
RB Data Services
www.rbdata.com

 

[Ronx]

The redirected error" is indicating that a link in the sitemap is being
redirected to a different location. A 301 or 302 redirect would not
normally harm your page ranking., but I am not sure of this case. Fix it by
correcting the links in the sitemap.

A "not followed" error is probably a link to a page or file that is in a
location marked as "disallowed" in the robots.txt file. This can be fixed
either by removing the link from the site map, or editing the robots.txt
file.

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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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