I checked Google’s Webmaster Tools and saw a lot of 404 errors dealing with */Unknown
I have my 404 error page set up to email me whenever it gets hit and there’s always tons of
favicon.ico errors so I finally figured out the solution.
There’s a lot of 404 errors that look like this : “http://www.thesh17.com/wp/2007/04/17/hot-fuzz-from-the-people-who-made-shaun-of-the-dead/feed:http://www.thesh17.com/comments/feed/“
The following pages were reported as not being reachable but work fine now.
There’s 272 urls being restricted by the
robots.txt file and it cut my supplementary indexed pages down a lot. There’s 283 pages
indexed by Google now.
Disabled the Shoutbox on the sidebar.
Removed the tag and category pages from the sitemap.xml file since they were being blocked by robots.txt anyway.
Disabled the Text Link Ads plugin.
Removed the Vizu Poll in the sidebar.
There’s some other things I did too, but I was bored and felt like listing these.
posted by johntash at
3:00 pm
I signed up for and started adding Text Link Ads to thesh17
Installed the beer-me plugin.
- It’ll show a link at the bottom of every post to buy us beer. It’s better than asking for donations, right? A beer a day keeps thesh17.com running
Signed up for the AdGridNetwork
- If it doesn’t bring any traffic to thesh17, I’ll probably remove it..
- It’s at the bottom of the sidebar. Yell at me if you don’t like it.
DreamHost moved www.thesh17.com to a new host with less load so it shouldn’t take 5+ seconds to load the main page anymore.
Our forums are getting filled with spam.
I updated wordpress to 2.2 a few days ago.
I changed a lot of things with the site’s design and code, but it’s still basically broke in anything other than firefox. I’ll give somebody a dollar to fix it.
(edit)Fixed a few 404 errors with the category links and changed all of the category urls(not the tags)
(edit)Changed the robots.txt and sitemap.xml files
posted by johntash at
8:32 pm
I’ve been cleaning up The Sh17 today and last night. The sidebar is less cluttered, and the little grey-red bullet things are cleaned up so they don’t look so out of place. I added the striped background h2 titles to separate more of the sidebar.
I removed the adsense bar at the top, and put one at the bottom of the sidebar instead. I installed Popularity Contest to show which posts are the most popular. You can see it on the sidebar between the Archives and Meta sections. It’s at the bottom of every post too(until I take it out)
There’s also one less post showing on the front page. I’m about to create a new page showing the best articles/posts and clean up the categories and whatnot. If anybody has any suggestions, now’s the time to tell me!
posted by johntash at
5:49 pm