Google and Status Codes

File Format: Unrecognized - View as HTML

[jojo88]

My site that has been around for a long time never has been listed properly with Google.
Under the listing it says.

File Format: Unrecognized - View as HTML

I checked my log file and Googlebot comes to the robots.txt file and recieved a 200 message. But when it comes to the any other page it does not recieve a status code at all. Could this be the problem?

[webdude]

go to google and search for "html check" with quotes. I would check the html to see what the problems are.

[shanbr]

Anyone know of a free place that also helps you fix the coding.

With all the advertisments and other programs I buy, I just can't afford another $60 fee while sites are slow.

Thanks.

[webdude]

there are many, go to google and type "html check" with the quotes.

[Span]

It looks like your pages are not served as text/html.
Try a header viewer like [delorie.com ]
WebmasterWorld has one too, but I can't find it..

[shanbr]

Ok, i'll check again. I can only find ones that let you know you have problems here here and here but none that tell you how to fix without joining.

[lars]

Try the search terms: "html validator"

These results list many free validation resources.

lars

[g1smd]

[validator.w3.org...] for HTML validation.

[jigsaw.w3.org...] for CSS validation.

[encyclo]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, jojo88.

The problem is related to the mime type of the page, rather than a validation problem. Your pages should be being served with the mime type "text/html".

If you click on Control Panel in the menu at the top of this page, then go to the Server Headers option in the left-hand menu. Enter your site address, and you should get something resembling this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 20:14:06 GMT 
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) 
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.8 
Connection: close 
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

Then post what you get in this thread (masking any references to your site, if any).