Google Not Seeing My 301's
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Good Morning!
So I have recently been putting in a LOT of 301's into the .htaccess, no 301 plugins here, and GWMT is still seeing a lot of the pages as soft 404's. I mark them as fixed, but they come back.
I will also note, the previous webmaster has ample code in our htaccess which is rewriting our URL structure. I don't know if that is actually having any effect on the issue but I thought I would add that. All fo the 301's are working, Google isn't seeing them.
Thanks Guys!
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Yea, I cleaned all that stuff up! This website was a mess.
Anyway, back to the .htaccess, I have no idea what they are being used for.... but we are actually in luck!
I was doing a little research and I came across something interesting.... Not only is that the original file that our old webmaster pulled from, but that's the updated version with 2 sets of entries commented out. Seems like a good place to start?
Thanks!
Here is the link, because it seems to not want to display properly.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-super-cache-force-to-https
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I think thats a good idea to try and comment them out to see if it makes a difference.
Oh wow, 45 slider images?? That's def got to be hurting your search rankings! Hopefully you've found some one better to manage your site. Let me know if you need any help, I've worked in the industry for quite some time now.
Good luck, and let us know if it still doesn't work after commenting.
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Thank you! Sorry It took so long to get back to this!
I KNEW IT! I didn't put any of that in there, it was our previous webmaster that I replaced. There are so many things that keep stacking up...
He has 45 images in our homepage slider and wonders why our website loaded slowly.... and the slider was on every single page...
Anyway, I will try commenting things out until I can figure out exactly what's going on!
Thank you
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Hmm, there's definitely way too much duplication going on in your .htaccess file. What exactly are the following pages used for?
- index-https.html
- index-https.html.gz
- index.html.gz
Each rewrite section seems to be set up for the pages above, including the last one for index.html. I presume it has something to do with supercache? I'd try consolidating the .htaccess file, as there are a lot of duplicate rules that can be combined. For example, the URIs, request method, etc are all the same in each section. However, in order to figure out what to consolidate and remove, we need to figure out what each of the rewrite pages are doing for your site.
You could always try commenting out each rewrite block at a time to see if its needed or not. I'm guessing your .htaccess has something to do with why Google cant access your site properly.
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Yep they are working... I cant upload the file on here, just pictures of the file, and I don't want to copy and paste everything.
I will paste in the rewrite script which I have a feeling is redundant. It was put in by the previous webmaster.
BEGIN WPSuperCache
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
#If you serve pages from behind a proxy you may want to change 'RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on' to something more sensible
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.//.$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800). [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html.gz" [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.//.$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800). [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html.gz" [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.//.$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800). [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html" [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.//.$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9"]+ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800). [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) "/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html" [L]</ifmodule>END WPSuperCache
BEGIN WordPress
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>END WordPress
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For the redirected URLs that GWMT is throwing a 404 error for, can you access them directly in your browser? I'd double check a few random links that Google is saying doesnt exist, and then from there I'd look into the .htaccess. It would be helpful if you could provide us with the .htaccess file here.
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