Unable to validate - keeps using wrong url

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  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    What's the exact URL it can't find ads on when you validate?
     
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    I want to use http://www.officialringtonechart.com/forum/ - as that's where the ads are. When I enter this as the url to use, when I click the validate button it says it can't validate https://www.officialringtonechart.com/forum/

    Thanks for any help :)
     
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    It's because that is the only other page Google knows about...

    [search=google]site:eek:fficialringtonechart.com+inurl:forum[/search]
     
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    Yes, but why does the validator change the url I enter from http to https?

    http has pagerank, but https doesn't, and due to it changing the url, I can't validate it :(

    Or are you saying it's because there's only the main dir listed in Google at the mo? But if that were the case, why does http://www.etc.com/forum/index.php validate (and also doesn't change from http to https)?
     
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    The https URL is coming from Google, not the preferences.
     
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    So there's no way to get it to validate until Google wakes up and realises https doesn't actually exist anymore?

    Just seemed a bit odd to try and validate the wrong url even though the one I want to check is listed fine in Google, and the url that validates isn't... :confused:

    Oh well I'll give up on it for now then - thanks for your time
     
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    Either that, or get more pages into Google so it will try other pages too.
     
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    It's only just got PR after the last update, so hopefully Google will take notice now and perform a proper spider of it at some point. Not too bothered about the time side of things as it's just a side-site I've not been actively promoting, but was just very confused over it not validating :eek: At least it's not really a bug with either my site or co-op :)

    Thanks again, I'll see if it works once it's been more deeply spidered.
     
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