Google Webmaster Tools Error - domain/acatalog/

[martindowling]

There have been a couple of recent threads on errors with Google but I think this is different.

Webmaster Tools shows an error as Google is trying to access
http://spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/acatalog/
which of course is not a valid link.

I have no idea where this link comes from. I have spent some time checking for it on the site maps and other pages but I can't find anything. Nothing has been changed recently on the site or site map
http://spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/sitemap.xml
and until the last week or two there has not been this problem.

I can't solve this by disallowing
http://spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/acatalog/
on the robots.txt file as that would disallow all of the Actinic part of the site.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. Thank you.
Martin

[TraceyHand]

not a perfect solution, I suppose, but could you not just redirect
http://spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/acatalog/ to http://spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/acatalog/index.html via .htaccess?

It'd provide a temporary fix, at least

[Mike Hughes]

Your hosting should automatically present a default page when presented with just a url or subdirectory, usually starting at 'index.html' and working down a list of possible options from there. Probably best to sort this out with your host.

You're also mixing up www. and non-www. urls which is not the best way to do things. Choose one and stick with it. Also tell Google via webtools which you prefer.

Mike

[pinbrook]

not a perfect solution, I suppose, but could you not just redirect
http://spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/acatalog/ to http://spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/acatalog/index.html via .htaccess?

i beleive this will send you into a loop, its not advisable.

however i would imagine that somewhere in your site you have got a link to acatalog without a html see if you can find this and replace it with acatalog/xxx.html.

in webmaster tools tell google the preferred site is with www

this will also stop google indexing non www, but as mike says be consistant with your usage of www and non www

[martindowling]

Thank you everyone. I have just used Xenu link checker and it has found no dud internal links. Is it possible that Google is following an external link to my site which is causing the error?

Thanks also for the comments regarding www. This is sorted in the Google webtools with a www preference. I just typed the domain into the browser to create the links in this post so there was no www - hence the confusion!

[Duncan Rounding]

As MIke previously mentioned you should contact your host as http://www.spectrumwellbeing.co.uk/acatalog/ for example does not automatically bring up the index.html page as is normally the case.

[malbro]

Thank you everyone. I have just used Xenu link checker and it has found no dud internal links. Is it possible that Google is following an external link to my site which is causing the error?

Do you use a sitemap file and if so have you checked it, I had the same problem and it was do to the automated sitemap software adding a line for www.mydomain.com/acatalog/ into the sitemap.xml file.