404 error comes up in google search

[Libellula]

I have been trying to get up on Google and this is what they have indexed. A 404 error. I'm totally confused as to why. Help??

 

Search results for searching "buff on barrels":

 

http://buffonbarrels.com/catalog/index.php

 

 

 

Actual website if you need it: www.buffonbarrels.com

[MrPhil]

I see that your store is actually installed into / (/index.php) rather than /catalog/ (/catalog/index.php). Are you explicitly directing Google to the /catalog/ address? Did you originally install into /catalog/ and moved the store up to the root / (a bad idea, by the way)? If that's the case, Google should be around fairly soon to reindex. If you have their webmaster tools, you should be able to prod them into an immediate recrawl.

[Libellula]

Thank you for the response. I am not sure? We hired out to install the template.. In webmaster tools I submitted just "www.buffonbarrels.com". Then I fetched as www.buffonbarrels.com/index.php. Should I be doing something differently with how it is currently set up on my side or with google?

[MrPhil]

Did the guy who installed your site originally put it in /catalog, and then move it to /? If Google happened to index it while it was in /catalog, that might have something to do with it. Given some time, Google will get around to crawling your site again and discover there is no /catalog. You can hurry it up through the Webmaster tools if you want to.

 

It would be possible to add the following to your /.htaccess file (and remove it once Google is updated):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/catalog [NC]
RewriteEngine ^catalog(.*)$ $1 [R=301,L]

[Chris H]

There seems to be a test version, and an intentionally-live version, of your store. And Google has indexed them both. The store name with the 'www', and without the 'catalog'

 

http://www.buffonbarrels.com/index.php

 

works as, I think, you meant it to.

[Libellula]

That makes sense. I will try that. Thank you! Hopefully Google will hurry up (haha... wishful thinking).

 

Thank you again.