Google Webmasters DNS error
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Hi,
In my webmaster tools I have a yellow triangle stating that there is a DNS error that is preventing Google crawling my sites.
The site is indexed and I have checked fetch as Google and that seems ok but the triangle is still there every time I check it.
The whois sites all have the correct information and point to Hostgator who I am using.
I have contacted them and they said everything seems ok.
Should I just carry on as normal with my link building as the site is indexed or investigate even further?
Cheers,
Stuart
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Ok, domain scored a 93.3% so you are fine. The triangle is just confusing UI by Google.
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Hmm, not sure I follow. Perhaps you could PM me the domain then I could take a look?
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Hi,
Thank you for your time! When you say above 80% what part of the graph should I be looking at?
On the Total DNS errors Graph when I hover the mouse over certain dates it comes up
Errors/Attempts 0/2 0%
But on the 8th Errors/Attempts 1/1 100%
I take it the latter is a bad sign and the first all ok?
Is that right?
Cheers!
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Excellent, on the 8th you can see the pages indexed dropped to 0 but then picked up again the next day. This aligns with the DNS error graph. If your DNS report is above 80% (email scores are not relevant to indexing) , you are fine.
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Could you attach a crawl stats for the same period?
Also, what does this site http://www.solvedns.com say about your domain?
Set up a monitor at pingdom.com and it will tell you about any DNS issues that happen 24 hours a day.
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If the triangle is on the message, it is historical and you don't have to worry anymore.
Check Health -> Crawl Stats. You will see what periods Googlebot was unable to index the site. If there is a positive number most recently then the issue has been fixed.
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Hi,
Thanks for the responses.
I have only had one message and the site has been crawled since with no new messages but the yellow triangle still remains.
Cheers!
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If this is the first time and you haven't seen any others, don't worry too much.
I recommend you contact your DNS provider and ask if they had any outages internally or near to them, on the date shown in the DNS failure report. Tell them is it because google WMT told you about it.
The internet, contrary to popular belief, if a system held together with old string and sometimes it breaks.
If you are really worried about it, you should get a service that checks your DNS and access to your site on a regular basis. Then you will at least know if there are other times that there are problems. If you have only a few pages on your site, and it doesn't change often, google will not be there very often. If you have a lot of content and there are regular changes, google will be all over your site, a lot of the time, so short outages can be more of a problem.
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Is the message dated? Perhaps this occurred before and fixed now but the message keeps popping up?
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