Hi all. I've googled and found a number of posts related to the mediapartners-google bot causing 500 errors - none answered my question. It just started happening to me after I redesigned a site of mine. The reason I'm getting 500 errors is because the M-G bot is calling a script at my site without passing in parameters. Nowhere on my site does a link to the script without parameters appear. In fact, everything with the exception of form posts use mod-rewrite. The one form post (and it is a POST), calls the same universal category/search results script directly, with no mod-rewrite. I'm guessing that form posts by users on my site are resulting in requests for adsense ads where google is getting no more information than the script name, as a result of the fact that it's a post. Since all it's getting is a script name, it's trying that. To prevent abuse I have my script setup to throw 500 errors if parameters have been manipulated or clearly haven't been been created at my website. I could setup a default page for a call to the script with no paramters. In fact, that's what I'm going to be doing, unless anyone has any different suggestions. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Gregg
Well, I answered this question myself. I changed the main search form back to a GET and the problem was solved immediately. I'm assuming that when you use a POST google doesn't get the script parameter information... just the URI.