interesting SEO case - need you help

Discussion in 'Google' started by diet, Jul 9, 2009.

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  1. #1
    hello all,
    on google webmaster tools for a relatively large site (over 300K pages).
    I get a 404 "not found" error for hundreds of pages.
    the urls which get the 404 "not found" have letters written in CAPS:

    domain/Folder/Page/Category
    this page doesn't get indexed or crawled in G. this page has over 60 incoming links to it.

    the interesting case here is, that the same page, when written in lower case - is crawled and indexed:
    domain/folder/page/category

    there is no duplicate content issue here since one page does not exist on G.
    tests i've done include running cache,inurl, "text" search commands.

    site is hosted on windows server, used to be ASP now it is ASPX.

    any ideas? i haven't found any reference for this error before.
     
    diet, Jul 9, 2009 IP
  2. alpalino

    alpalino Peon

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    #2
    because the foldernames are case sensitive. did you create the sub folders with lower case or upper case?
     
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  3. mohit115

    mohit115 Active Member

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    #3
    there might be some pages on your site which are linking to the Caps C version. This happened with me as well, and I removed the caps from linking pages and it was all ok.
     
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    Silenc3r Banned

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    That's because folder names are case sensitive.
     
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    #5
    While you figure out what's going on you can always create symbolic links from the missing folders to the existing folders if you are on a Linux/UNIX box.
     
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  6. diet

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    the site is hosted on windows asp server.
    i thought only php is case sensitive.
     
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    you suggest linking from the lowercase folder to the uppercase folder?
     
    diet, Jul 10, 2009 IP