Google Webmaster Tools

[obcbeatle]

Hello:

 

I just started using Google Webmaster Tools a few weeks ago and today received the following message from Google Webmaster Tools:

 

"While crawling your site, we have noticed an increase in the number of transient soft 404 errors..."

 

Below is an example of 1 of the 3 url's that GWT says there are "possible outages/404 errors" :

 

http://mydomain.com/cart/product_info.php?currency=EUR&products_id=69&action=notify

 

I'm trying to figure out what I may need to do to prevent the crawler from having issues with my osC store (which is installed in ~/cart). As an aside, I am a US e-store and US $ is the default, but EURO is selectable. When I test the url above it takes me to the user welcome login page and EURO becomes the default currency. Anybody ever seen this issue? Thanks!

[♥geoffreywalton]

Either you have changed the url to hide your domain name or are trying to sell.

 

The link specifies the currency so that is why it would change.

 

HTH

 

G

[obcbeatle]

Either you have changed the url to hide your domain name or are trying to sell.

 

The link specifies the currency so that is why it would change.

 

HTH

 

G

 

For some reason when I changed the domain to mydomain (I didn't want to post my real domain) the link did not post correctly in this forum. Anyway, the part of the url that GWT says generated 404 errors is:

 

mydomainhere (this comes after mydomain **product_info.php?currency=EUR&products_id=92&language=en&action=notify**)

 

product_info.php I presume to be info about an item in my e-store; currency is obviously EURO; products_id #, language and notify I do not understand exactly what those variables are doing to make the googlebot hiccup, and particularly what "notify" means. Maybe I should contact Google, but I thought maybe someone else running osC has seen this problem before. Thanks for the reply.

[♥geoffreywalton]

Try looking at your site and see if there is a "product notification" link.

 

There is one on the checkout success page and also one in a product box.

 

/checkout_success.php

/includes/boxes/product_notifications.php

 

Google has found one and followed it.

 

Cheers

 

G

[obcbeatle]

For some reason when I changed the domain to mydomain (I didn't want to post my real domain) the link did not post correctly in this forum. Anyway, the part of the url that GWT says generated 404 errors is:

 

mydomainhere (this comes after mydomain **product_info.php?currency=EUR&products_id=92&language=en&action=notify**)

 

product_info.php I presume to be info about an item in my e-store; currency is obviously EURO; products_id #, language and notify I do not understand exactly what those variables are doing to make the googlebot hiccup, and particularly what "notify" means. Maybe I should contact Google, but I thought maybe someone else running osC has seen this problem before. Thanks for the reply.

 

Ahhh...yes...there is a notification link for every item in my store so that a user can be notified if any changes are made to the item (like a price change "special", I suppose). Clicking the notification link then asks the user to login. I guess googlebot generates a "404 error" when getting to those notification pages (can't login?). Not sure how that is effecting real users (my customers) though. I guess it's OK then...?