JEvents continues to create large cache

Hello,

Is the events crawler link available on the site?

Can we see a link to your site?

Thanks
Tony

Hello Tony,

The Events Crawler link is in a hidden menu.
The site is here: http://www.holbrookchamber.com

Thank You,
Chris

Hello,

Is the events crawler link available on the site?

Can we see a link to your site?

Thanks
Tony

Hi Chris,

The Menu Item needs to be accessible on the front of you site. Usually the footer, otherwise google will ignore it.

Thanks
Tony

Ok, I changed the footer link of Events to go to the crawler instead of the main monthly calendar view. It's not a very elegant look, but lets see what happens.

Thank you.

Hi Chris,

The Menu Item needs to be accessible on the front of you site. Usually the footer, otherwise google will ignore it.

Thanks
Tony

Great, I would advise using a program like ScreamingFrog SEO spider. To basically crawl your site as a bot would. This should then tell you all the links the bots are allowed to access.

I did a quick crawl of your site. You have a big SEO issue you have the virtual directory listed on your site?:

/~holbrook/

This needs to be removed as it's duplicating content.

Many thanks
Tony

Hi Tony,

That's a big concern! Can you tell me where you're seeing the ~holbrook reference? Normally we'll use that for testing a site before the client changes the dns records to our server.

Thank You.

Great, I would advise using a program like ScreamingFrog SEO spider. To basically crawl your site as a bot would. This should then tell you all the links the bots are allowed to access.

I did a quick crawl of your site. You have a big SEO issue you have the virtual directory listed on your site?:

/~holbrook/

This needs to be removed as it's duplicating content.

Many thanks
Tony

I didn't inspect the site deep enough to see it's location. But I suspect it is hard coded into your text in places.

Do a database search for:

/~holbrook/

and replace it with:

/

Many thanks
Tony

Hello Tony,

We're still working on resolving the problem with the ~holbrook access in the url. What apparently happened is that the client was given a temp url before we moved the site DNS records over to our hosting. That temp url is the typical cpanel one that includes the ~ symbol. Apparently the client continued to use that url after cutover and as a result the sobipro add-on started caching urls with that format and serving them to subsequent visitors. So search engines ended up crawling the site that way as well. So we're working on resolving that.
But back to jEvents - So we changed the footer link to point to the crawler menu item instead. I've watched it for about 10 days now and although the cache build up was slower for a few days, it has gone back and started creating huge cache files again. Any ideas what else to look at?

Thank You,
Chris

Hi Chris,

Do you have google webmaster tools for this site?

It will be worth assessing where/what it is logging.

It might be you have bad bots hitting your site and causing the caching too!

Many thanks
Tony

Hi Tony,
I set up webmaster tools for the site and it has been accumulating data for about a week now. Any suggestions as to what I should be looking for within the webmaster tools console?
Thank You,
Chris

Hey Chris,

WMT should show you the most hit parts and links within your site, have a look through and see if you find anything suspicious.

Many thanks
Tony