mhsuffolk Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I have had an OSC shop since 2009, before that I had a simple frames based shop. The have all been under the same domain. Both Bing and MSN bots still look for pages from the original frame based shop and also the OSC thumb images from my previous 2.2RC2a shop. They still keep looking for these on my new 2.3.3.4 shop. Are they retarded? Live shop Phoenix 1.0.8.4 on PHP 7.4 Working my way up the versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥toyicebear Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 You need to make sure your server serves up a correct http error message for missing files, which in return will lead to Binga and Google dropping those urls over time. Basics for osC 2.2 Design - Basics for Design V2.3+ - Seo & Sef Url's - Meta Tags for Your osC Shop - Steps to prevent Fraud... - MS3 and Team News... - SEO, Meta Tags, SEF Urls and osCommerce - Commercial Support Inquiries - OSC 2.3+ How To To see what more i can do for you check out my profile [click here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 If your shop (SEO or not) is merely redirecting missing pages to the storefront, with a 200 code, the search engines will never realize the link is invalid. In the process, you may be getting dinged for duplicate content. If I understand it correctly, you need to send back a 404 code for those URIs (or better yet, a 301 if there is a replacement page) so the search engines will realize that the requested content is gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhsuffolk Posted April 9, 2014 Author Share Posted April 9, 2014 There is no direct replacement page so the server replies with a 404 not found every time, that's why I think they are retarded. On checking their IPs they appear to be genunine as opposed to a hacker masquerading. The 2.3.3.4 site went live in January 2014, should they have learnt by now? Live shop Phoenix 1.0.8.4 on PHP 7.4 Working my way up the versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 So if you try calling up these ancient pages yourself, in a browser, you get a 404? And Google figures it out quickly, but Bing/MSN never drops these old links? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhsuffolk Posted April 10, 2014 Author Share Posted April 10, 2014 Thank you for you replies @@MrPhil. I have solved the problem. I have this addon by @@FIMBLE http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5914 Security Trap It lists the http errors including 404s in a module within admin It also puts a redirect in htaccess thus ErrorDocument 400 /catalog/Error.php?Error=400 ErrorDocument 401 /catalog/Error.php?Error=401 ErrorDocument 403 /catalog/Error.php?Error=403 ErrorDocument 404 /catalog/Error.php?Error=404 ErrorDocument 405 /catalog/Error.php?Error=405 ErrorDocument 408 /catalog/Error.php?Error=408 ErrorDocument 415 /catalog/Error.php?Error=415 ErrorDocument 416 /catalog/Error.php?Error=416 ErrorDocument 417 /catalog/Error.php?Error=417 ErrorDocument 500 /catalog/Error.php?Error=500 ErrorDocument 501 /catalog/Error.php?Error=501 ErrorDocument 502 /catalog/Error.php?Error=502 ErrorDocument 503 /catalog/Error.php?Error=503 ErrorDocument 504 /catalog/Error.php?Error=504 ErrorDocument 505 /catalog/Error.php?Error=505 On inspecting my raw logs I found what should have been 404s were 302s I contacted my host who investigated and decided the htaccess code was the issue. They commented out the 404 line and all is now well but the 404 errors no longer appear in Security trap, I can live with that. Live shop Phoenix 1.0.8.4 on PHP 7.4 Working my way up the versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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