what does google do with dead links?

[SubZeroGTS]

i made an attempt at rewriting my scripts as directories using .htaccess then i gave up. but google found the page anyway. the page loads, but all the links on the page then get screwed up.....google hasn't really done a lot of work on indexing other parts of my site surprisingly. any ideas why?

here's my log of googlebot hits on my old IP address (which is still used by google):

[files.matrixvibe.net...]

all those googlebot hits were in the last few days. i haven't seen either of the bots in over a day. is that all there is to a crawl?

BTW, it indexed pontiac-vibe.com which is a mirror of my site, i just added a 301 redirect for that domain back to my main domain so google won't drop me, and there's only one site in there but maybe i was too late for this update?

[Yidaki]

What about the server status code for the requests? I didn't find them in your log example - without them it's hard to help ...

[SubZeroGTS]

ah i didn't remember how to do that, so i didn't include it. it's just a little bit of php code i put into my pages :)

i can tell you that all the URLs that point to things like:

index.php/viewforum.php are incorrect.

the rewriting bit, rewrites urls from:

index.php?c=1&s=5

to:

index.php/c=1/s=5.html

so that page works. but once in there, all the other links from that page are wrong, they'd be like:

index.php/c=1/index.php/c=2/s=5.html

or something like that.

[Yidaki]

>i can tell you that all the URLs that point to things like

You tell that! The status code tells what google sees. ;)

You can't work on this problem without knowing what google receives when requesting a page from your server.

[adamas]

What method are you using to convert the rewritten urls back into something that makes sense to the server?

I note you're using PHPBB and netcraft says that you're running on Apache. If you have mod_rewrite functionality then I have some code changes that I'm about to put live on my own PHPBB forum that you might find useful.

[SubZeroGTS]

yes i do, that would help a lot if you could help me out, thanks