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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:05 am    Post subject: 404 page is in top 10 !
 
 

Today I have found a 404 error page is ranking high in google search result. How is it possible?
 
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:52 am    Post subject:
 
 

Instead of having www(dot) it is having www1(dot) and also home page is redirecting to another url of this site. But how they are getting the top 10th position in serp ranking.
 
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:27 am    Post subject:
 
 

Maybe because Google isn't almighty?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:29 pm    Post subject:
 
 

A few factors:

  • It may be a custom 404 page. In ASP, a custom 404 page will not be set up to return the 404 error code by default. It returns the 200 error code, and a line has to be added when a page doesn't actually exist and it not referring to something else.

    SEO-types have been able to take advantage of this by creating pages that don't exist and programmatically (sic?) replacing them with pages that do.

  • The page may have been there at the time Google crawled the site.

  • It may be a Supplemental Result (layman's translation: it ain't there no more.)

  • You may not be looking for a competitive search phrase.

What's the page, and what's the phrase?

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:42 pm    Post subject:
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This can be a page hijacking trick, please pass the url that I can analyze.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:32 am    Post subject:
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Yes we need more info, also check the cache of the page. Have you heard of dark seo team, look at this page http://www.pr10.darkseoteam.com/ and look at its cache (Do not forget to check the PR).
 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:13 am    Post subject:
 
 

Quote:
What's the page, and what's the phrase?


http://www1.oecd.org/error.htm

debt forum
 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:19 am    Post subject:
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Can I start some classes for Web, here it goes Smile.

Just calling a page 404 won't make it 404, you need to send the right headers.

In this case the header return is

Code:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:39:32 GMT
Content-Length: 5310
Age: 127



It is sending a 200 ok Header.


Now then why is it on the top?
Blame the Google algo as it considers each link as a vote and with this voting you can make a dog a donkey. (Read about Google bombing). Currently it is having more(as google only shows a sample of backlinks) than 1780 backlinks ( Results 1 - 10 of about 1,780 linking to http://www1.oecd.org/error.htm).
 
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:32 am    Post subject:
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That was cool Norah, I am going to send an email to the webmaster to check this thread and correct the problem. Also will ask him to join Norah's classes on Web.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:03 pm    Post subject:
 
 

I don't see anything from OECD.org in the SERPs for "debt forum", and definitely not on the first page.

http://66.249.93.104/search?hl=en&q=debt+forum <--- the new G datacenter, so it would be the best source.

What datacenter are you querying? (The part after the http:// and before the search.

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:05 pm    Post subject:
 
 

Hee ADAM, that datacenter is showing data from the test-center. Cool!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:03 pm    Post subject:
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Looks like it is removed from the SERPs
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:10 am    Post subject:
 
 

http://64.233.161.99/search?q=debt+forum&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

It's there.
 
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