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November 20, 2007

An Extra Forward Slash foils the Googlebot

Writing about web page http://www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk

LR Products have migrated from solely serving the automotive and truck cabs business to mainly serving the building trade and renovators with GRP Chimneys, brick effect cladding, stone and brick effect arches window canopies, dormers etc. Moving from the mass identical to individually colour matched products they have rebranded to GRP Building Products.
GRP Chimney range Window arches save time and add features Brick effect cladding for areas where real bricks cannot be mounted.

Their web hosts redirected their old domain www.lrproducts.co.uk to the new domain www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk but unfortunately added two forward slashes after the .co.uk. So these linked to www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk// (note Blogbuilder fixes the problem!)
www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk//products.html
www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk//finishes.html
When you click on these most browsers take you to the correct page just like the real links below:
www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk/
www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk/products.html
www.grpbuildingproducts.co.uk/finishes.html
I suspected that this was not helping the Search Bots and found confirmation here from Webmaster World: Google dropping urls because of an extra forward slash

GRP Building Products Ltd’s hosting company are removing the extra slash. Good adherance to standards will always help the search bots. Yes these could get around the problem but all the extra parsing and code that they add increases their already considerable carbon footprint. Simple, fast, easy to navigate sites are also greener.

Robert McGonigle : 20 Nov 2007 10:54 | Tags: Carbon Footprint Googlebot Search Search Engines | Comments (0) | Close comments | Report a problem

October 09, 2007

Links get sites found & Warwick Blogs links work Fast & cuts carbon!

Writing about web page http://www.malverncurtainmaker.co.uk

I blogged yesterday about an ‘out of the box’ website that I had reviewed. The main problem was that it had no links to it so the search engine’s bots were never going to find it. I linked from our new sub-site www.startup-support.co.uk last week and then blogged about the tools after my visit.

The whole site is now cached by Google with the only traceable link from yesterdays blog entry! Even better the owner found out about this with her first web generated enquiry.

This speed of responce is due to the friendly lists of updates maintained for us by the Warwick Blogs site. These direct the search engines to the changed content without the bots needing to spider the whole site. This saves electricity at the search engines data centres. So use sitemaps to the www.sitemaps.org standard in your websites to reduce your carbon footprint!

Robert McGonigle : 09 Oct 2007 18:14 | Tags: Carbon Footprint HTML Links Sitemaps | Comments (1) | Close comments | Report a problem