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Between the end of February and the beginning of March my webmaster and I made a number of changes to my forum (upgrade to 4.2.0, fb app install, private forums, added viglink, new skins, subscription option). Shortly after, my traffic and adsense earnings dropped off the face of the earth. There seemed to be some kind of issue where my server (it had worked fine before) was timing out and google bots could not crawl and my host fixed that. There was an issue with google not being able to suddenly see the links in my site map and the webmaster fixed my site map. There was an issue with adsense bots not being able to see my content and I found out (via a thread on this forum) that even though I had given adsense crawler a login and password (and tested it) that it is not compatible with vbulletin. The other fallout from private forums was there were hundreds of 'page not found' errors and hundreds of soft errors in webmaster tools. So, last Sunday I opened all my private forums and made them public. I am not getting the soft/not found errors in webmaster tools now. And adsense is marked "crawling" in access an authorization. So I am assuming all is well there. I submitted the forum url's in webmaster tools that had been private and are now public again and it notes "success" but when I click the "success" link it says:
Fetch as Google This is how Googlebot fetched the page.
URL: http://www.bellydanceforums.net/lyrics
Date: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 10:43:13 AM PDT
Googlebot Type: Web
Download Time (in milliseconds): 156
The page seems to redirect to itself. This may result in an infinite redirect loop. Please check the Help Center article about redirects.
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:43:13 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17 Location: http://www.bellydanceforums.net/lyrics/ Content-Length: 0 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html
Does this warning mean there is still a problem? Is it affecting google's ability to fetch and index my site?
Between the end of February and the beginning of March my webmaster and I made a number of changes to my forum (upgrade to 4.2.0, fb app install, private forums, added viglink, new skins, subscription option). Shortly after, my traffic and adsense earnings dropped off the face of the earth. There seemed to be some kind of issue where my server (it had worked fine before) was timing out and google bots could not crawl and my host fixed that. There was an issue with google not being able to suddenly see the links in my site map and the webmaster fixed my site map. There was an issue with adsense bots not being able to see my content and I found out (via a thread on this forum) that even though I had given adsense crawler a login and password (and tested it) that it is not compatible with vbulletin. The other fallout from private forums was there were hundreds of 'page not found' errors and hundreds of soft errors in webmaster tools. So, last Sunday I opened all my private forums and made them public. I am not getting the soft/not found errors in webmaster tools now. And adsense is marked "crawling" in access an authorization. So I am assuming all is well there. I submitted the forum url's in webmaster tools that had been private and are now public again and it notes "success" but when I click the "success" link it says:
Fetch as Google This is how Googlebot fetched the page.
URL: http://www.bellydanceforums.net/lyrics
Date: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 10:43:13 AM PDT
Googlebot Type: Web
Download Time (in milliseconds): 156
The page seems to redirect to itself. This may result in an infinite redirect loop. Please check the Help Center article about redirects.
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:43:13 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.17 Location: http://www.bellydanceforums.net/lyrics/ Content-Length: 0 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html
Does this warning mean there is still a problem? Is it affecting google's ability to fetch and index my site?
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