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Help needed

2007-02-19, 6:18 pm

Hi all,

need a help with this web page. In Google webmaster tools it is said that
this site home page in not indexes for a long time ago. It says it has
problems in redirecting? What do you think is is possible for
Google Bot to search this site

http://www.hotel-kompas.hr/Home.asp...D=1&gohome=true

http://www.hotel-kompas.hr

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.This problem can sometimes be
caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

Any comments ?
Thanks
BT

Benjamin Niemann

2007-02-19, 6:18 pm

BT wrote:

> need a help with this web page. In Google webmaster tools it is said that
> this site home page in not indexes for a long time ago. It says it has
> problems in redirecting? What do you think is is possible for
> Google Bot to search this site

No, it seems to be completely inaccessible for every user-agent without
cookie support (this includes all search bots).

> http://www.hotel-kompas.hr/Home.asp...D=1&gohome=true
>
> http://www.hotel-kompas.hr
>
> Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
> address in a way that will never complete.This problem can sometimes be
> caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

That's it. Your server-side code is redirecting to itself over and over
again, when cookies are disabled.
Check your server-side code and make sure that it does not require cookies,
unless there's a very good reason for it.
You'll probably have to rethink the way you are handling multiple
languages - e.g. use URLs like /de/.. /en/.. instead of storing the
language selection in the session.

--
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

2007-02-19, 10:20 pm

"Benjamin Niemann" <pink@odahoda.de> wrote in message
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> BT wrote:
>
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>
> No, it seems to be completely inaccessible for every user-agent without
> cookie support (this includes all search bots).
>
>
> That's it. Your server-side code is redirecting to itself over and over
> again, when cookies are disabled.
> Check your server-side code and make sure that it does not require
cookies,
> unless there's a very good reason for it.
> You'll probably have to rethink the way you are handling multiple
> languages - e.g. use URLs like /de/.. /en/.. instead of storing the
> language selection in the session.
>

Thanks Benjamin,
but can you check this site
http://www.dubrovnikpalace.hr/Home....D=1&gohome=true
when we speaking about languages handling. It seems that on this site is
working fine.
Will there be a problem with GAnalytics as stats prgm if the server do not
require cookies?

Chaddy2222

2007-02-19, 10:20 pm

"BT" <thisismymail@email.com> wrote in message
news:ercgrt$4pg$1@sunce.iskon.hr...
> Hi all,
>
> need a help with this web page. In Google webmaster tools it is said that
> this site home page in not indexes for a long time ago. It says it has
> problems in redirecting? What do you think is is possible for
> Google Bot to search this site
>
> http://www.hotel-kompas.hr/Home.asp...D=1&gohome=true
>
> http://www.hotel-kompas.hr
>
> Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
> address in a way that will never complete.This problem can sometimes be
> caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.
>
> Any comments ?
> Thanks
> BT
>
>
Hmmm, well going by what the message said. Any browser that does not support
cookies will not re-direct to your site, ( you should really do that stuff
on the server side, which you appear to be doing to an extent anyway).
Might I suggest though that you re-write your URL's so they make more sense,
if you can?. As having the URL with the ID from that database does not give
the search engines much to go on when crawling your site.
I hope that helps.

2007-02-20, 6:17 am

"Chaddy2222" <me@me.me> wrote in message
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>
> "BT" <thisismymail@email.com> wrote in message
> news:ercgrt$4pg$1@sunce.iskon.hr...
that[color=darkred]
> Hmmm, well going by what the message said. Any browser that does not
support
> cookies will not re-direct to your site, ( you should really do that stuff
> on the server side, which you appear to be doing to an extent anyway).
> Might I suggest though that you re-write your URL's so they make more
sense,
> if you can?. As having the URL with the ID from that database does not
give
> the search engines much to go on when crawling your site.
> I hope that helps.
>
>

Thanks Chaddy2222
I was considering changing URLs into SE friendly but than have heard that it
would take a long time to recrawl pages and even more to reposition and
loose the positions they are now which I don't want to happen. What do you
think is that clever for old site?

BT

Benjamin Niemann

2007-02-20, 6:17 pm

BT wrote:

>
> "Benjamin Niemann" <pink@odahoda.de> wrote in message
> news:ercop5$65m$1@online.de...
> that
> cookies,
>
> Thanks Benjamin,
> but can you check this site
> http://www.dubrovnikpalace.hr/Home....D=1&gohome=true
> when we speaking about languages handling. It seems that on this site is
> working fine.

It works fine (for some definitions of 'fine') with cookies enabled. You are
storing the language choice in a cookie, and the URLs of the german and
english 'pages' are identical.
Use one of
/Home.aspx?PageID=1&gohome=true&lang=de
/de/Home.aspx?PageID=1&gohome=true
and there are probably many more naming schemes...
Ideally you should get rid of the query parameters completely and
use 'speaking URLs' like /de/einfuerung, /en/introduction, ...

Then get rid of the ASP session or whatever is generating the five other
cookies - is it really required for anything?

> Will there be a problem with GAnalytics as stats prgm if the server do not
> require cookies?

Don't know.

--
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/