mobilebadboy
03-22-2010, 05:47 AM
I've got a large shopping section on one of my sites and all (or most all) of the URLs are set up in the ../../ fashion. I did this so I could duplicate sections while only having to dynamically change anchor text -- everything is setup up the same otherwise.
I just redeveloped and redeployed this section last night and started glancing at the bot stats, and boy did I see this URL setup was a mistake, at least with Google. I'm seeing a ton of entry page tracking that looks like:
http://domain.com/shopping/blah/blah/http://domain.com/shopping/
Which of course results in 404s.
So after the weeks of work and finally getting excited about putting the new section up, I've realized I should have been watching my stats more closely along time ago. Would have just saved me an extra 2 hours of "quick" work to convert everything to absolute URLs.
A bit late for old areas, but new areas of the section will hopefully get crawled properly.
:sick:
I just redeveloped and redeployed this section last night and started glancing at the bot stats, and boy did I see this URL setup was a mistake, at least with Google. I'm seeing a ton of entry page tracking that looks like:
http://domain.com/shopping/blah/blah/http://domain.com/shopping/
Which of course results in 404s.
So after the weeks of work and finally getting excited about putting the new section up, I've realized I should have been watching my stats more closely along time ago. Would have just saved me an extra 2 hours of "quick" work to convert everything to absolute URLs.
A bit late for old areas, but new areas of the section will hopefully get crawled properly.
:sick: