Hi, I'm having problem with adding my Joomla! site to automated links manager submission pages. I keep getting the error message: "Please check your URL: 404 Not Found". I was advised to delete the robot.txt file which I did but I still got the same problem. The reason being is that I was told that some link exchange scripts don't tolerate any robot.txt files as it would consider this as blocking SE spiders to crawl the site. When I viewed my meta tag, there is this piece: <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" /> which I think must be changed to <meta name="robots" content="all" /> or deleted at all since the robot.txt is not there anymore. But how do I do this? Frustrated,
I doubt it's anything to do with the robots.txt file or the robots meta tag but I touch on them briefly here The bigger problem is that the header setting isn't being sent accurately on your pages. Use a HTTP Status Codes Checker to check for yourself what is being sent back (hopefuly not a 404) and post back an example page.
Thanks sarahk, I went to the HTTP Status Codes Checker but don't understand the path of my Joomla! header. Where is it? Is it in the template files that I'm currently using? Can you help me find it? Thanks again.
I took a look at http://www.e-money-machine.com/partners/Make-Money-Internet-Marketing-and-Promotion.html and it's throwing a status 200 - as it should. I can't see why the bots would have problems. BTW: your header image is gorgeous but 190k!!!
Hi Sarahk, Thanks a lot for replying. I just found an interesting discussion in the Joomla.org forum. Apparently there is a serious bug that causes ANY spiders (including SE spiders - sigh) to find the 404 page instead of the homepage, when the SEF is enabled. Here is how to fix it: http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,26361.msg152961.html#msg152961 I'm posting this because there might be others here who are using Joomla! 1.0.5 and have the same problem. Thanks, sarahk,... oh and... i'll be working on the header image again... soon