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christmanrd

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Another newbie question here so please, go slow.

I checked the Google Webmaster Tools report, WEB Crawl, Not found (222). Can someone explain this to me or should is it something that I do not need to worry about it?

http://www.christmanfamily.net/getperson.p...I628%20tree=001 404 (Not found) [?] Nov 30, 2007

http://www.christmanfamily.net/showmap.php?cemeteryID=0 404 (Not found) [?] Nov 28, 2007

http://www.christmanfamily.net/showmed...I...kID=&page=2 404 (Not found) [?] Dec 9, 2007

http://www.christmanfamily.net/showmed...e...=1&page=238 404 (Not found) [?] Dec 2, 2007

http://www.christmanfamily.net/showmedia.php?mediaID=109

Thanks, David

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These type of errors can be caused by several things:

1. Other sites linking to your side did not copy the link correctly when the published it.

2. Someone tried to edit a link to your site in their browser address line and made a mistake.

3. A transmission error garbles a link when someone is connecting to you site.

4. You may have broken or incorrect links on your site causing these errors.

Only the last one do you have any control over. You can try some tools available to try to help you locate any broken links you may have on your site. But since most of the links are created dynamically by the TNG PHP scripts, this is unlikely unless you have pages you have created manually or some code has been corrupted.

Example: http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

I hope that helps.

Steve

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I guess I would also say that since you are seeing these errors as a result of Google crawls, that the second cause I listed above is not valid for Google. Also that you can have links messed up if you have media, pictures, headstones, etc. that have links pointing to them but you don't have the media loaded on your site or the link is named incorrectly.

Watch out for capital and lower case differences. This can happen if you are uploading from a windows system to a Linux system. As Windows doesn't care about case but a Linux server is case sensitive.

When I look a diagnostic reports I try to look for errors that occur over and over and investigate why they are happening.

Steve

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I guess I would also say that since you are seeing these errors as a result of Google crawls, that the second cause I listed above is not valid for Google. Also that you can have links messed up if you have media, pictures, headstones, etc. that have links pointing to them but you don't have the media loaded on your site or the link is named incorrectly.

Watch out for capital and lower case differences. This can happen if you are uploading from a windows system to a Linux system. As Windows doesn't care about case but a Linux server is case sensitive.

When I look a diagnostic reports I try to look for errors that occur over and over and investigate why they are happening.

Steve

Steve,

I have downloaded the suggest program from Xenu's Link Sleuth and in the process of running it now. It has been running for 20 minutes and is only at 20%. It might take awhile.

The point you make about Windows vs Linux is definitely a possibility since my server is Linux based. I will also check those media links.

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Steve,

I have downloaded the suggest program from Xenu's Link Sleuth and in the process of running it now. It has been running for 20 minutes and is only at 20%. It might take awhile.

The point you make about Windows vs Linux is definitely a possibility since my server is Linux based. I will also check those media links.

I have downloaded and ran the suggested software application listed above. Today, when I go to my webserver, I see quite a few of these type of files: core.793. Are these files part of this program that I downloaded and can I delete them from my server?

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David,

I'm not sure what those files are from but the name could indicate a core dump from the server. If your hosting service provides good service you may want to send them the file names and have them determine if it's ok to remove them.

Steve

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David,

I'm not sure what those files are from but the name could indicate a core dump from the server. If your hosting service provides good service you may want to send them the file names and have them determine if it's ok to remove them.

Steve

Steve,

You were correct. They were dump files from the server. I contacted them on Friday and they finally answered me today. They removed the files.

Thanks,

Dave

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