gbot picked up my new IP, but now it's screwing up all links?!

[SubZeroGTS]

i have some <base href="blahblha"> tags, and it's ignoring those. so it's getting like 404 errors and no responses on half the links it is following from this one page. (it's a pretty long page with a lot of links).

i'm wondering why it isn't going after the normal links/pages that would be fine regardless of the base tag?

and why does it ignore the base tag?

[Brett_Tabke]

Base tag can muck with their "Cached" page once it is indexed. Pages with the base tag tend not to get indexed or index properly. (not always the case, but I don't know the qualifier as to why. I've not seen anyone mention that here before either...)

[buckworks]

Here's something to check: watch out for the slash after the dot-com bit in your base tag. Depending on how the rest of the links on the page were set up, the presence or absence of the slash in the base tag can cause problems.

<BASE HREF="http://mysite.com/">

vs.

<BASE HREF="http://mysite.com">

If the slash is absent from the base tag, you need to include it at the beginning of internal links elsewhere on the page. If it's present in the base tag, you can omit it in other links.

If the browser can add together "http://mysite.com" from the base tag together with "/index.html" the result is a properly formed link "http://mysite.com/index.html" Similarly, if "http://mysite.com/" is added to "index.html" the result is a proper link. If the slash were present in both places, it would end up like this "http://mysite.com//index.html". Some browsers can make an intelligent guess as to what was intended despite the double slash, some return errors. I'll let you figure out the resulting "link" if the slash were absent from both places.

If you happen to be viewing your own work in a browser that's too good at making intelligent guesses, that can disguise glitches... possibly the glitch that is confounding Google?

Responding to Brett: I use the base tag on nearly every page I make

<BASE HREF="http://mysite.com/" TARGET="_top">

and have never noticed any problems with getting indexed or ranked. Could you say more about that?

[Brett_Tabke]

>more about that

It's easy to manipulate the Google cached page into doing some funky stuff. We were just wondering if there were some "adjustments" because of that during last months update.