Hi David,
I was just wondering if you have had this problem and if there is a fix for it. Google sitemaps in have a problem with the jump.php, once they download the sitemap then when google comes along and crawls the site it comes up with number of errors and is pointing at the jump.php page. It is redirecting to nothing!
Not too sure if there is some code to add to it or if should just disable this function. Also once google crawls your website the clicks in the admin section are increased ten fold. This is not really a true way to track click, yes google crawler has in effect clicked them but this is not true traffic.
Any ideas as to the solution for this problem, any more details needed then just let me know.
Regards
David
Tiny Rascals
Buyone At
Thanks David,
I did have jump blocked in the robots text file, maybe the syntax just wasn't right, google still indexed it.
Will give it a go and then see what happens in about a month when google re-index again.
Cheers
David
Hi David,
I would use robots.txt to prevent search engine / other crawlers from requesting jump.php. This will stop the sitemap errors and also prevent the increase in clicks when robots do request it.
Check WebPriceCheck.co.uk's robots.txt for the correct syntax:
http://www.webpricecheck.co.uk/robots.txt
..or if you just want to block jump.php use something like:
User-agent: *Disallow: /jump.php
Cheers,
David.