I’ve tried updating the sitemap for http://www.yourpetnme.com and keep getting the following.
Status: Failed.
Error: Connection reset.
The website works and has been updated to the server, which is working properly.
When I checked the URL using the "Sitemap Generator", I get the following message:
Java.net.SocketException: Connection Reset
Can someone explain what is happening and what "Connection reset" means?
Thanks,
Alex
Hi Alex,
I just ran a sitemap on your site and didn’t have a problem? Make sure you are using the full website address like this:
yourpetnme.com/
I also used these excludes (on the settings page):
*.jpg
*.JPG
*.png
*.gif
A few seo tips:
Make you you reference your home page (main page) with the website address, not website address/index.html
Make sure the description on each page is unique.
By the way – you should add your website url to your signature, it will help you more than you know
Let me know if you still can generate a sitemap.
Best regards,
Jim.
Thanks for getting back to me Jim.
Something peculiar is happening. I ran a sitemap this AM and I get 173 Error: Connect Reset pages on a 5 page website and some of them are 302 redirect pages.
I’ve checked whatever I know to do, to try to find these but I can’t seem to find where the errors are coming from.
I could use some help on this.
Thanks,
Alex
www.yourpetnme.com
Can you try it in another browser? How about another PC?
What is the exact url (site address) that you are entering?
I’m not seeing any redirects, so this is odd indeed.
I have seen this on sites that redirect to www from non www. In other words, if you enter ht tp: //google.com into the sitemap generator, you’ll get an error because Google redirects anyone typing in google.com to www.google.com. A solution for this type of problem is simple, just enter google.com
Best regards,
Jim.
OK here’s what’s happening.
When I enter www.yourpetnme.com into the Sitemap Generator I get all of these failed pages. (I’ve attached a print screen of the page) Nothing after the forward slash is correct.
When I enter yourpetnme.com (eliminating www.) the sitemap generates correctly.
I don’t understand why that is happening. Why isn’t it generating when I enter www.?
Alex
www.yourpetnme.com
Hi Alex,
I just noticed this post – are you still having the same problem? I ran the sitemap generator on the site with and without the www and both worked fine.
Let me know.
Best regards,
Jim.
I don’t understand this!
Thank you for getting back to me. I also just ran another sitemap and it ran perfectly. Yet, previously virtually everything had failed as shown on the attachment that I sent you.
Oh Well! I guess that’s what we call modern technology.
Just a question. In your first reply to me, you said:
"A few seo tips:
Make you you reference your home page (main page) with the website address, not website address/index.html"
By that, if I understand you correctly, the home page address should read: www.yourpetnme.com/yourpetnme, instead of www.yourpetnme.com/index.
When I first started learning, I remember reading somethin to the effect, that the name of the "Home page" should remain either, /home, /index or /default and that I should stick with any one of these names for the first page. The remainder of the pages didn’t matter what name you used.
I would appreciate your input.
Thanks,
Alex
www.yourpetnme.com
Hello Alex,
The name of the home page should always be the website address and nothing else.
So, in your case, it should be yourpetnme.com/
Index.php and default.asp are the default pages anyway, so you’ll end up with two pages having the same content. Google states they can account for this, but will other search engines?
FYI – when a visitor types in www.yourpetnme.com/ and depending on your setup, your server will look for index.php, default.asp, etc. There is no need to specify the file for the main page, just your website address.
Best regards,
Jim.