Spider check on site fails, please advise

[cgchris99]

My site is http://secure.3dshoots.com

 

I plugged this in to http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/s.../sim_spider.cgi

And it fails.

 

If I put in http://secure.3dshoots.com/default.php the spider does report links. If I put in http://www.wizardsandwars.com (which contributes here), his site comes up fine without the default.php on the end.

 

How can I fix this.

I also have been reading about Session Killers and Meta Tag contributions.

Which Session Killer should I use?

Which Meta Tag contribution should I use?

 

Thanks all for any advice

[orchard]

How are you getting http://secure.3dshoots.com to go to http://secure.3dshoots.com/default.php? Some people use redirects, some use php include/require, and some configure their website to look for default if there is no index page. I think it may make a difference which method you are using.

[cgchris99]

Yes it is an index.html with the following.

 

<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT="1; URL=http://secure.3dshoots.com/default.php">

 

Thanks for any advice

[orchard]

I heard Google doesn't like redirects so I use this one line index.php

<?php include "default.php" ?>

Others use a method that involved changing

  define('FILENAME_DEFAULT', 'default.php');

to

  define('FILENAME_DEFAULT', 'index.php');

in application_top.php and renaming files as necessary. I think Google and customer's IE favorites already found my default.php, so I didn't want to rename it.

[cgchris99]

Thanks, now the site passes the spider check.

 

Do you think I should re-submit it to the search engines. I just did it about 2-3 weeks ago.

[orchard]

Google says they don't mind if you submit again, but they don't guarantee it will help get your site updated sooner either.