More Google Webmaster Questions

Hi Guys,

I have a few more questions please.

So far I have about 200 Crawl errors in Webmaster Tools for my site.

I have noticed some of these errors come from when people post links to other domains on my forum.

For example,
Someone has posted a link to :
h**p://tinyurl.com/3n38azq

My Crawl error shows :404 Not found linked from three pages.
http://www.myforum.co.uk/3n38azq
This happens for every URL that someone pasts on my forum, the number is slowly increasing everyday.

How can I fix this?

Next question:
404 Errors for forumdisplay.php
http://www.myforum/forumdisplay.php?26-Other-Pets-Forum

My actual URL is:
http://www.myforum.co.uk/other-pets/

So is the best practice to block forumdisplay.php in my robots.txt file?


Am I able to make future posts including my domain name rather than changing all the names or is this not allowed?

Thanks for any help

It is normal for google to 'stuff' urls from other sites on to your domain like it's doing for tiny url. As long as they correctly error, its ok.

For forumdisplay, since you used friendly urls before youneed to add in a redirect code for those apges:

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !do=
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ([0-9]+)-[^/]+\/page([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^(forumdisplay\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&f=%1&page=%2 [L]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !do=
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ([0-9]+)-[^/]+$
RewriteRule ^(forumdisplay\.php)$ vbseo.php?vbseourl=$1&f=%1 [L]

Should go right above the sitemap rule in the htaccess file.

Thanks once again Brian, a big help!