tedster - 12:03 am on Mar 20, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thank you so much -- that is inspiring, and it ends with such a nice clean bill of health.

I know what you mean about weekly housecleaning. One of my clients uses a third party service to generate their site search. The spider reports are incredibly useful, and from one to the next I'm always amazed at the creativity that has gone into out new round of errors.

It's true, right now, that Google's back end is a bit off in several ways. But it's also true that many websites have something they can do right now to help themselves. I've seen it several times in the past few weeks were someone brings me a site yelling "Google this" and "Google that" -- but a bit of digging and we find a custom 404 that's showing a 200 header, or some method that generates 3 or 4 urls for every page.