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My blog URL in search engine is pointing to my skin!

1 May 09, 2007 20:47    

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Hi everyone. This is my first post here. Boy am i in trouble lol.

I have my new blog all set up and it was doing great until I did a meta tag analyzer search to see how it looks and found out my URL is:

http://www.mysite.com/yellowskin/skins

My site is pointing to my blog skin in the url.

I did a search on this site for similar problems others may have had but couldn't find anything.
Thanks so much :)

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2 May 10, 2007 00:35

Search engines are probably not pointing to your skin. A meta tag analyzer would probably show your skin, which by the way is not what you linked to in your post, because b2evolution uses your path to your skin as the "base" tag.

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3 May 10, 2007 19:22

Ed,
Thanks so much :) I was thinking that was so weird. On the widxl meta tag analyzer, that showed my homepage as pointing to the skin. Glad to know nothing to worry about :)

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4 May 10, 2007 22:56

I do experience that skin changes turn up in google a lot even though I don't have them in my side bar! Also, sometimes google returns bookmark operations, which is really annoying as when you click them it doesn't display the page but tries to bookmark something.

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5 May 12, 2007 14:36

If it always happen, and yes its weird coz it shouldn't, you'll need to create a combination of .htaccess and robots.txt setup.

I'll have to dig my research about this, especially now that you mentioned it, I have to fix mine...

I bookmarked this post and added to my todo list so I'll remember to get back on this.

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6 May 12, 2007 15:01

RTomes wrote:

I do experience that skin changes turn up in google a lot even though I don't have them in my side bar! Also, sometimes google returns bookmark operations, which is really annoying as when you click them it doesn't display the page but tries to bookmark something.

just add a robots noindex, nofollow, tag to all the other skins <head> ;)

I'm assuming that your "bookmark this page" is done with js? ( btw if it is then it only works in ie ;) ), in which case just write the whole tag with js and then search engines won't see it ;)

¥

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7 May 12, 2007 22:11

I have long ago removed the skin change in the sidebar and do not allow user CSS, so this all seemed very mysterious. However I later discovered the little V D L style things up the top - however these seem to be only for admin, which is me, and I don't use them. Weird huh!

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8 May 13, 2007 00:02

If you had skin selection enabled when google and others crawled you they'll remember it for quite some time. Eventually they take the hint though, unless the skins are still there. Meaning as long as the link works they'll think it's a valid page and keep it in their indexes. So have you actually removed the skins from your /skins/ folder?

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9 May 13, 2007 07:21

Thanks EdB, no I haven't, but now that you have explained it to me I will.

I notice that google is still sending lots of people to pages that now have "noindex" on them. I suppose that will take a little while too.

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10 May 13, 2007 12:42

RTomes wrote:

Thanks EdB, no I haven't, but now that you have explained it to me I will.

I notice that google is still sending lots of people to pages that now have "noindex" on them. I suppose that will take a little while too.

Yep it will take some time..

Try this via .htaccess:


Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9-]+\.)?gameshogun\.info$
RewriteRule (.*) http://gameshogun.ws/$1 [R=301,L]

Just edit it to suit your needs, example, if google bot is still point to your http://domain.com/blogroot/skin/_main.php you can force all access to it to go: http://domain.com/blogroot/ instead, like so:


Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9-]+\.)?domain\.com/blogroot/skin/_main.php
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/blogroot/ [R=301,L]

It means that any access to (whatever).domain.com/blogroot/skin/* will be redirected to domain.com/blogroot/

If you have existing subdomains, it will not redirect it. It will only redirect subdomains that do not exist.

R=301 means "permanent redirect", so that the search engine bots will be forced to update their snail brains about your new (or rather correct) URL :p

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11 May 13, 2007 13:33

A slight majority of the google searches are now going to individual articles. Of the rest the most common one is to category items such as http://ray.tomes.biz/b2/index.php/c?cat=64 and that has 

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow"/>


in its html. But there are also some to things like
http://ray.tomes.biz/b2/index.php/c?tempskin=_atom which tries to make a bookmark when clicked... that is bizarre!

Just a thought ... I wonder whether the last one is someone subscribing to my blog?

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12 May 13, 2007 14:21

If categories, it should be fine in my opinion and bots will actually index it.

Regarding the feed links like Atom, usually its the Google Feed Bot that should index it not the google search bot itself.

But I think it should be ok, what I don't know is why it is "bookmarking" instead of showing the feed in xml form.

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