Application/x-msdownload in crawl report?

[JimLynch]

In a crawl report for my company's site, the "content_type_header" column usually contains "text/html".  But there are some random pages with "application/x-msdownload"... what does "application/x-msdownload" mean?

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[JoelDay]

Hi Joe,

It looks like in this instance that tag is referring to a select handful of pages you have that have a 301 redirect on them and have oddly formatted URLs. I'll give an example without divulging any info about your site:

Each instance of that is on a URL formatted as such: http://www.example.com/www.example.com/Sample-product-in-red.html

Let me know if you have any more questions about that. If you'd like to discuss this in more detail you can drop us a line at help@seomoz.org and put ATTN: Joel in the subject.

Cheers,
Joel.