Status code of 200 , need help

MickeyP31

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I was checking my pages via Traffic Travis and in the Page warning section, it tells me this...

Your page did not return a status code of 200.
Search engine robots will only index pages with a server header status of 200 - check and fix your URL.


Can anyone explain and help me how to deal with this problem?
 
It depends of several factors.
first of all check your url in browser, have you able to see your page?
if not then try find the source of it: sitemap.xml or on main page and fix it.
if page loads correctly:
- check url with any online service that shows status code, if it shows wrong code then check server configuration etc.
but if online services show code 200 then possible your page loads very slow or you have bad proxies, so:
- make sure that page loads during short time (in 5 seconds)
- remove all bad proxies or all of them temporary and re-update your url manually.
 
Can you tell me any source that checks the status codes?
Yes the site loads correctly. Sometimes it takes a bit long to open pages, sometimes not. Is the problem caused by this?
How remove the proxies and re-update the url manually? just type it?
 
but if online services show code 200 then possible your page loads very slow or you have bad proxies, so:

Bullsh*t. 200 stands for OK. That is the code your pages should be returning. The error message simply states that your page is not returning OK.
Either you're blocking IPs in htaccess or more likely, the link is redirecting to another page. While on the surface it might look like the page has loaded, it has actually returned 301 or 301 because of the redirect.
 
200 stands for OK.

of course 200 is ok :). but Traffic Travis shows that url doesn't return code 200, then page possibly couldn't be loaded by some reason or really doesn't return correct code. it should be checked first, is url correct and page loads.
could be used any online service just try search for "check http status code online".

and redirecting couldn't be an issue, because TT analyzes final page, that url redirected to and the latest url has to return 200.

Sometimes it takes a bit long to open pages, sometimes not. Is the problem caused by this?
yes, i think it is an answer,
just try manual update url (if you have a project inTT) MySite tab -> select needed url in first column and press button "update" below grid.
 
Start by telling us the code it does return by using one of the sites listed by others above. It could be many things. A few ideas are the page doesn't exist (I assume this is not the case), you have some kind of syntax error in any php code on your page, the page is a redirect or there is a temporary server hiccup that will resolve on it's own.
 
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