Errors in my website, not sure what they mean

[KimberleyCreative]

I get these daily errors for my website in my error log, but I'm not sure what they mean:

File does not exist: /home/kimb/public_html/favicon.ico
File does not exist: /home/kimb/public_html/robots.txt

[zumojuice]

Well it looks like it is looking for files that don't exist. Does you web-server have those files? It may be that something in your code is looking for those files. Either it's a piece or borrowed code acting up, or perhaps something looking for a file on your computer and the link's not corrected so it can't find it.

[CVW]

Those are files that are looked for by default by some browers and crawlers, which is probably what causes the errors.

I am not a graphic designer but surely every site should have a favicon. It adds brand to browsers favourites list and generally looks more professional.

And every site should have a robots.txt file even it is blank. Live Search used to not even index a site if the robots.txt file didn't return a 200 found response. Not sure if that is still the case.

HTH

Rob

[tommylogic]

If those files exist in your home directory, you need to include the correct path to those files in the HEAD section of all your pages.

If those files do not exist (although they should as stated above), then you need to remove the referencing lines from ALL of your pages.

[KimberleyCreative]

I've found out what the robots.txt is, and a website create on in:
Robots.txt Generator - McAnerin International Inc.

I'll see if I can find out in Google what favicon.ico means

[KimberleyCreative]

All sorted! Thank you for your responses guys. I managed to find out what favicon.ico means, and create one here:
favicon.ico Generator

[LeadMagnet]

Kimberly, your robots.txt file is wrong. It's not meant to be a html file.
Also, if i'm interpreting it right, you're blocking a load of search engines from indexing your website... is that what you were trying to do?

[tommylogic]

Kimberly.. here is some good info on robots.txt
How do I use a robots.txt file to control access to my site?

And you may consider using Google Webmaster Tools to help out with some of your site.

There's tons of good stuff in both of those links you should learn about and probably start implementing ASAP

[KimberleyCreative]

Originally Posted by LeadMagnet

Kimberly, your robots.txt file is wrong. It's not meant to be a html file.
Also, if i'm interpreting it right, you're blocking a load of search engines from indexing your website... is that what you were trying to do?

Thanks, I'll change the extension. Truthfully I'm not quite sure what the robots.txt file does. I blocked a lot of websites, because I read something about them going through bandwidth. I'm going to read the information at Google again.

[LeadMagnet]

I'm not talking about the extension. It is a .txt file, but it's got a load of HTML tags inside.
And i'd only worry about those sites taking up your bandwidth if you actually start to get that much traffic that it matters.