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kneelsit
11-12-2002, 07:47/07:47AM
Date: 11-12-2002[05:38:29]
User requested for: http://www.kneelsit.com/links/themeindex.html was not found !
User Details:
IP addr:216.239.46.13
Browser:Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
Referred by: n/a


Error Code: 404
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The above email was one of about a dozen or more I receive each day that notifies me of attempts to find old files or incorrect spellings. the software automatically send the searcher on to my
index page instead of bringing up the "404 error"; it then sends an email notifying me of these attempts as per the above.

The person who devised the program assures me that there is no problem with Google or any other SEs. However, I would like some other EXPERT opinions on this - particularly as the file being searched on is actually the address of the Zeus directory which USED to be on my site.

Alan Perkins
11-12-2002, 08:06/08:06AM
Hi Greg

Googlebot is following a link to that page from some other page on the Web.

Your software is intercepting the 404 and giving a 302 (temporary redirect) to http://www.kneelsit.com/custom404page.html

http://www.kneelsit.com/custom404page.html returns a 200 (OK) and contains this code snippet:

<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX NOFOLLOW">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" Content="0;URL=http://www.kneelsit.com"> You are supposed to have a comma between the NOINDEX and NOFOLLOW, but overall you should be OK with this approach. I would also add these lines to your robots.txt file:Disallow: /links/
Disallow: /custom404page.html

kneelsit
11-12-2002, 15:13/03:13PM
Thanks for that Alan, you HAVE CALMED DOWN MY PARANOIA :D