websiteoptimization.com returns 403 error

[mafiasam]

okay I thought my site http://www.oldwestgames.com was completely viewable and almost xhtml compliant but when I try and test my site through http://www.websiteoptimization.com it returns a 403 forbidden error and won't go any further.

what's going on?

i get traffic. i've had sales. however i recently added ssl and credit card merchant services. could this be the problem. since the main page is not ssl i'm thinking that's not the problem.

please help.

thanks in advance

[Phid]

Mine did the same thing. Got the 403 error. Maybe it has something to do with ZC or the way we have our sites configured.

[Kim]

If you turn off the SEO URL contrib does it work?

[mafiasam]

Mine did the same thing. Got the 403 error. Maybe it has something to do with ZC or the way we have our sites configured.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. lol.

If you turn off the SEO URL contrib does it work?

No, but I only turned it off for about a minute or so. Still returned the error. I just hope that important search engine functions aren't being misdirected or turned away.

thanks guys.

let me know if you find out anything. i'm not going to worry about it too much. maybe i'll write these guys and see if they understand why it would return results like that.

[Website Rob]

If anyone is referring to Web Page Analyzer, I didn't have a problem? Not using the SEO URL Mod though.

[mafiasam]

If anyone is referring to Web Page Analyzer, I didn't have a problem? Not using the SEO URL Mod though.

hmmmmm....
i'll post a link to this thread in that forum and see if we can get some answers...

[mafiasam]

hmmmmm....
i'll post a link to this thread in that forum and see if we can get some answers...

here's the post on that thread
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...=35034&page=34

well, here's an interesting thread that you might want to check out.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50033
i've been getting a 403 error when trying to get my page analyzed at http://www.websiteoptimization.com/
I wasn't sure what it was but then there was a suggestion that it might be seo urls because one poster replied that he had no problem but he doesn't use seo urls.

just wanted to let you know that this issue was there

i'm not even sure what kind of impact it has on anything but maybe we could track down the cause and research it a little for future optimization...?

[samad64]

check your htaccess file to ensure you haven't banned 72.51.34.164 .. thats the IP the analyzer uses

if that still does not work.. check your robots.txt file

[mafiasam]

check your htaccess file to ensure you haven't banned 72.51.34.164 .. thats the IP the analyzer uses

if that still does not work.. check your robots.txt file

Definitely not the htaccess file

php_flag session.use_trans_sid off
php_flag register_globals off

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# From Ultimate SEO URLs
RewriteRule ^(.*)-p-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-c-(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&cPath=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-m-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pi-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pr-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)-pri-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=product_reviews_info&products_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For Open Operations Info Manager
RewriteRule ^(.*)-i-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=info_manager&pages_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# For dreamscape's News & Articles Manager
RewriteRule ^news/?$ index\.php?main_page=news&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/rss.xml$ index\.php?main_page=news_rss&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/?$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news&date=$1-$2-$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/archive/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2}).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_archive&date=$1-$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+)-comments.html$ index\.php?main_page=news_comments&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
RewriteRule ^news/(.*)-a-([0-9]+).html$ index\.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=$2&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

# All other pages
# Don't rewrite real files or directories
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ index\.php?main_page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

or the robots.txt file
it might as well be empty

#robots.txt
# no restrictions imposed

[DrByte]

What's in your /.htaccess file ?