As part of an SEO project one must be armed with all the best tools. My primary weapon is Google Webmaster Tools, and today has been really helpful in trying to get to the bottom of why Google is still indexing a cached version of the Download TV Free web site.
In a previous post I mentioned how I had renamed the hoe page which resulted in Google dropping the site from its index. I fixed this by updating the default home page of the site to the renamed page which got it back into the index, however logging into Google Webmaster Tools this morning revealed the following:
Web Crawl Errors
The Web crawl errors show that the spider is still detecting a “Not Found” 404 error. Clicking on the “1 Details” links shows the following:
Not Found
The not found page shows that the page www.downloadtvfree.net/home (The original home page name before I changed it) page cannot be found. It also shows that 2 pages in the site are currently linking to it. Clicking on the “2 pages” link shows the following:
Link To
This page shows that the site map and the home page link to the old page name which no longer exists.
Solution:
Drupal allows you to create page aliases, what are those, well they are basically virtual page names which redirect to any page on your site, very cool and useful. In this case I created the alias “home” (Which is the page Google indicates is missing) and redirect this alias to the new home page called “free-tv-downloads”
On another note, just wanted to say congratulations to WordPress, today they released their new Dashboard, it is awesome!
Till later
Scorpio
Filed under: Download Tv Free, Programming, Search Engine Optimization | Tagged: cms, drupal, google webmaster tools, Programming
