Got a notification from google webmaster tools that the number of 404 errors have gone up considerably, on inspecting the crawl errors I see a lot of errors to something that shouldn't there:
webmaster tools
I checked the source code but didnt find a mention of said URL so dont know where google is getting is from. This plugin directory doesn't even exist. Its a WordPress installation so theres a wp-content/plugins folder but no plugins/ folder.
What could be going on.. why is google trynna index a non existent URL and getting a 404.
Site URL is http://ladiesnightandbrunchesdubai.com
Any help would be appreciated.
This URL comes from Facebook Comments plugin. As it is not absolute URL, Google crawler thinks it is pointing to your website.
This probably didn't happen before either because:
1) Google crawler recently started execute more and more javascript - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html If this is the case, we could encounter more problems like this with 3rd party scripts on our website.
2) maybe Facebook comments plugin didn't have relative URLs
Solution:
Tell Google not to crawl these URLs by adding them to robots.txt
Disallow: /plugins/feedback.php
I'm seeing the same thing on my wordpress site. First occurrence was 11/23. There are now around 500 urls and growing.
I've grepped the wordpress codebase and can't find where that path is being constructed and discovered by google.
To fix the 404 report in Webmaster Tools I've added a 301 redirect on '^/plugins/feedback.php' to the homepage. And then marked all as 'Fixed' in Webmaster Tools.
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This is my site link:
www.englishact.com
This is the sitemap current position:
Google is showing no error in sitemap or any other pages. But indexed pages are 0 for about 3 months. I also have uploaded new sitemaps which are acting same way with no index.
NB:
I am using 1and1 paid hosting package. Also, google has accepted adsence for this site. Now what can I do? Any suggestions?
Your website is index on Google, i just searched for site: www.englishact.com and got many results.
Check if the links in your XML sitemap are valid or redirecting to another URL.
Also you have to solve the duplication in the URLs, you can access your website with WWW and without it, also you have two URLs for the homepage http://englishact.com/ and http://www.englishact.com/index.php
After fixing these errors your website should be healthy and Google will understand the structure of it.
I've been trying to get to bottom of this problem for a few hours but I can't seem to fix it, I've seen other questions similar to this and tried to use those to implement a fix for my problem but to no avail.
I've built a facebook contest canvas app which displays fine independantely but when I link it to a facebook page (as a link to a new contest) chrome no longer displays is and gives the following warning:
The page at 'https://www.facebook.com/contest/app_xxxxxxxx' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://mydomain.com/': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
I've learned partly by trawling this site that the chrome security is fussier, and the app loads correctly, without errors in FireFox and IE but I can't find any resources that are loaded from a non https source.
I have been through with firebug checking in the net tab and checked that all of the loaded resources are using https (the png images, the jpg images, the css files and the jquery js files which are all hosted on the same server that has the certificate), I have even tried hosting the transitional dtd doc itself but nothing seems to make the warning go away and the app display correctly.
In the other similar questions it seems that there are either resources sourced from non-https sources or there are ssl switches used in the javascript library for facebook passed before the fb init.
The problem is that I am using only the php sdk not the js one (although I am using version 1.9 of jquery, hosted on my server) and I could find no similar ssl specific settings there.
If someone could give me a tip about how I could investigate further, what I might be missing or is familiar with this issue I'd be interested to hear about it.
Thanks a lot.
David
Facebook requires the app to come from https:// you need an ssl certificate on your server and to enable ssl. in the Facebook app settings change secure url to https://mydomain.com url
I did have a similar issue recently (but it only caused issues on IE10) and I resolved that by adding P3P header
header('P3P:CP="IDC DSP COR ADM DEVi TAIi PSA PSD IVAi IVDi CONi HIS OUR IND CNT');
Found the solution!
In the facebook app settings, if the page tab url is specific to a page e.g. https://www.mydomain.com/index.php, chrome doesn't complain with the insecure content message but if you reference a directory the error is propogated. I found this confusing since the 'canvas' urls need to be directories.
I hope this answer will save someone a few hours! :)
Humbly asking for any assistance people have time to give me on this one. Let me start by saying that I am aware there are previous questions about this on this site and elsewhere on the web; I have read a lot of them, and they are either unanswered/resolved, had a particular cause that doesn't apply to me, or suggests things I have already done.
Over the past few days, Facebook has suddenly stopped scraping my website posts successfully, so when I paste a link into Facebook it pulls nothing through - no thumb or description. I run the links through the FB lint/debugger, and it alternates between 403 and 503 response codes, but mainly 403. Previous links that Facebook has cached/successfully scraped still display with thumbs and desc, but still present as a 403 or 503 response.
My site is http://21stcenturyburlesque.com
One of the new URLs I have been testing is : http://21stcenturyburlesque.com/the-burlesque-top-50-2013/
I have checked with the server/host people. Nothing has changed, everything fine.
I have tried with the default wordpress theme. No change.
I have read threads about Bullet Proof Security causing issues, although why it suddenly would I don't know. It was deactivated on my site anyway, but I went through the removal process to remove the htaccess file with the BPS code in it. I have then run debug without an htaccess file present, and with a very basic htaccess present. No change.
Hotlinking protection is disabled in my cpanel.
I have experimented with adding/removing www. and / when I paste the link into lint as someone suggested. No change.
I use Facebook OGP Wordpress plugin. I spoke to the creator and he says the plugin is working as it should and to contact my host/server. See bullet one.
I tried creating a new FB App and using the new App Id number with the OGP plugin. No change.
Checked the cpanel error log. This came up three times tonight:
[Fri Nov 01 21:47:53 2013] [error] [client 193.242.149.35] File does not exist: /home/**/public_html/403.shtml
There are a few other things I ruled out but I've been at this for so long I can't remember all of them, so if someone suggests something else I've tried then I apologise for not mentioning it here in advance.
If anyone can suggest anything else, I would really appreciate it. I manage to fix most technical problems I come up against, but this has stumped me and my much more experienced colleague and it is really affecting my clickthrough rates and site traffic. If it comes down to adding things to my htaccess file, I would appreciate guidance on what to add/remove. Many thanks in advance.
I had the same problem. Drove me crazy for hours (maybe days). In your FB app settings make sure that the top Facebook url has http://
A site I'm working on has been hacked. The CMS (which I didn't build) was accessed and some files (e.g. "km2jk4.php.jpg") were uploaded in image fields. I have since deleted them (a week ago). Now, when I search for the site on Google, then click the result, it either:
a) simply redirects me to the Google search page
OR
b) a download dialogue appears asking me to download a zip file, with the source domain something like gb.celebritytravelnetwork.com
Clearly the site's been compromised. But if I simply type the URL in the address bar, the site loads fine. This only happens when I click through Google results.
There is no .htaccess file on the server, and this is not a virus on my computer, since many other people have reported the same thing happening, so this question is not relevant.
Any ideas please?
Thanks.
Your Source files have been changed.
Check all the files included in the index page. They might be header , footer pages.
And try using : fetch as google bot.
I recently purchased the domain www.iacro.dk from UnoEuro and installed WordPress planning to integrate blogging with Facebook. However, I cannot even get to share a link to the domain.
When I try to share any link on my timeline, it gives the error "The content you're trying to share includes a link that's been blocked for being spammy or unsafe: iacro.dk". Searching, I came across Sucuri SiteCheck which showed that McAfee TrustedSource had marked the site as having malicious content. Strange considering that I just bought it, it contains nothing but WordPress and I can't find any previous history of ownership. But I got McAfee to reclassify it and it now shows up green at SiteCheck. However, now a few days later, Facebook still blocks it. Clicking the "let us know" link in the FB block dialog got me to a "Blocked from Adding Content" form that I submitted, but this just triggered a confirmation mail stating that individual issues are not processed.
I then noticed the same behavior as here and here: When I type in any iacro.dk link on my Timeline it generates a blank preview with "(No Title)". It doesn't matter if it's the front page, a htm document or even an image - nothing is returned. So I tried the debugger which returns the very generic "Error Parsing URL: Error parsing input URL, no data was scraped.". Searching on this site, a lot of people suggest that missing "og:" tags might cause no scraping. I installed a WP plugin for that and verified tag generation, but nothing changed. And since FB can't even scrape plain htm / jpg from the domain, I assume tags can be ruled out.
Here someone suggests 301 Redirects being a problem, but I haven't set up redirection - I don't even have a .htaccess file.
So, my questions are: Is this all because of the domain being marked as "spammy"? If so, how can I get the FB ban lifted? However, I have seen examples of other "spammy" sites where the preview is being generated just fine, e.g. http://dagbok.nu described in this question. So if the blacklist is not the only problem, what else is wrong?
This is driving me nuts so thanks a lot in advance!
I don't know the details, but it is a problem that facebook has with web sites hosted on shared servers, i.e. the server hosting your web site also hosts a number of other web sites.