[thelist] Google is indexing me......

[Joe Crawford]

on 9/9/2001 7:02 AM, CDitty at mail at redhotsweeps.com wrote:

> Google is indexing me and is filling up my error log.  For some reason,
> they keep trying to hit my forums and are trying to call it with a \forum
> instead of /forum (see below).
> 
> [Sun Sep 9 01:12:53 2001] [error] [client 216.239.46.153] File does not
> exist: /One_Time/Household_Items/Lawn_and_Garden/\forum\
> 
> 
> They are doing this on almost every single page.  Can anyone offer any
> advice on fixing this?  I have verified all my links and they are
> correct.  I would hate to have to block Google as I get tons of traffic
> from them.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.

You should look at your links again - I found this:

 <center>Have you used our<br><a href="\forum\"><b>Forums</b></a>
yet?</center>

   Note the incorrect slas.

I think you need to find your instances of \forum and go from there.

HTH,
    Joe
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