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lostconfused
27-12-2001, 17:39/05:39PM
HELP! I included a site via ineedhits and got an "Error: ERROR_UNKNOWN: Unknown Cause Of Error" - how can I fix this???

Thanks for any help! No idea what to do. I've contacted ineedhits support but don't want to miss another crawl waiting for an answer!!!

The site is http://www.dunno.info - works great.

It is all frames and javascript, and the top page has no body, and some sub pages have noindex or nofollow metatags - but the top index does not have robots metatags. It has proper metatags for keywords and descriptions, and a title.

Does the top index need a body? Do I really need to remove the noindex/nofollow from all the subpages in frames? I dont want them indexed...

HELP!!!

Here is the index.htm file:

[header deleted it is valid...]

<FRAMESET ROWS="*">
<FRAME marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" name="trueindex" SCROLLING="no" SRC="http://www.dunno.info/trueindex.html">
<NOFRAMES>Dunno info meta search engine - Sorry! You must have frames and javascript (1.2) enabled to use DUNNO-INFO meta search engine!</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>

[I've since changed this to provide a document body and text - perhaps I'll expand this area into a larger text document for browsers without frames or javasrcript]
lostconfused
27-12-2001, 18:18/06:18PM
The only think I can think of is that it may not like the <NOFRAMES> area not having a <body> statement?

I've since corrected that... I'd hate to wait through the next crawl only to find that won't fix it...

Thanks for any tips.

That now looks like:

<FRAMESET ROWS="*">
<FRAME marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" name="trueindex" SCROLLING="no" SRC="http://www.dunno.info/trueindex.html">
<NOFRAMES>
<body>
<p>Dunno info meta search engine and data mining tool - Search and compare web sites, directories, phonebooks, weather, newsgroups, pictures, images, internet acrhives side-by-side - with dunno-info, you can save your search comparisons for later use</p>
<p>You must have frames and javascript (1.2) enabled to use DUNNO-INFO meta search engine!</p>
</body>
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
markymark
27-12-2001, 18:21/06:21PM
Um. Well, a 400 error means that the server is incapable of delivering the requested page to the person or spider requesting it.

What was the page you submitted ? I presume it was the default dunno.info page. If you want to get any kind of ranking in the search engines, you will need to rethink the home page at the very least. Get rid of the frames, no search engine is going to be able to spider that and even if they do, there is no content anyway, so you won't get ranked.

To be frank, this is prime example of what not to do to. No content, no proper code structure, too much javascript, etc. Also, Google to name but one do not let you use their content on your site without paying them ridiculous sums of money.

My suggestion is that you browse these forums to get a good idea of how to create a search engine friendly web site and then start again from scratch. Sorry :(
lostconfused
27-12-2001, 18:28/06:28PM
Sorry, it was an error 4000, not error 400.

I think I need to insert some content in the NOFRAMES area of the index.

As to using anyone's content - you were right I am not publishing any hypertext content, nor anyone else's! dunno-info is broswer software! The user then determines what to do.

This is kind of like all4one.com, but a lot more genuinely useful. Especially since you can save your combined query information.

Certainly all4one.com is an appropriate and successful site. dunno.info requires javascript to run at all, since it's software, but I think I can make the index page look like what inktomi wants...
ihelpyou
27-12-2001, 20:49/08:49PM
Welcome to the forums lostconfused! :hi:

Yep. There is nothing in the code for a spider to crawl. You do need to put a full page of content into the noframes tag.

BUT, I would suggest you make your index page a straight html page that explains your software and that is spider friendly. Even if you succeed in getting this index page in the engines, you will have a very hard time getting any ranks. Actually, I would make a couple of regular pages that explains your software.
lostconfused
27-12-2001, 20:58/08:58PM
Hmm, that makes sense. Thank you!