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I hav this problem to although I fixed most of them by deleting the files in the template section that google was talking about not in the main directory but on the template itself uploaded got rid of most of them , only have 4 left from like 18 so maybe check in your template setting – I use dreamweaver so just deleted the files to the right and worked for most of the 404s
get a screenshot of the errors ad post, also you should see a reffering page for each as well.
If the reffering page is one og your pages you have an issue, otherwise we should still look at it.
Doubt your numbers are as high as mine
. I have over 900+ pages, mostly because during the process of tweaking the website, I’ve changed URL structures, Post Titles, I’ve even gotten rid of posts etc. Links towards your site would also cause 404, in fact I see some pretty old links, toward some non existing pages, that mostly cause this sort of an issue.To be honest, nothing to worry about as you do not get penalized for it, especially when it comes from a referring site that perhaps scraped you a while ago. You should only worry if the user gets 404 when directly visiting from the SE, cause that would count as bad user experience, and can hurt your rankings that way.
So to sum it up, if nothing is missing nevermind what Webmaster Tools report. I am so used to seeing 900+ not founds that it doesn’t bother me any more.
Thanks for sharing your insights here… Any screenshots to help to get to the bottom of this and try to provide more insight?
I’ll also reach out to some folks to try and get more answers… More to follow soon…
I have a fair few 404s, however they normally ten to be my fault, for not updating the sitemap, or redirecting old pages. If they are old and not in use anymore, just do a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file.
@xecutable 241499 wrote:
Doubt your numbers are as high as mine
. I have over 900+ pages, mostly because during the process of tweaking the website, I’ve changed URL structures, Post Titles, I’ve even gotten rid of posts etc. Links towards your site would also cause 404, in fact I see some pretty old links, toward some non existing pages, that mostly cause this sort of an issue.To be honest, nothing to worry about as you do not get penalized for it, especially when it comes from a referring site that perhaps scraped you a while ago. You should only worry if the user gets 404 when directly visiting from the SE, cause that would count as bad user experience, and can hurt your rankings that way.
So to sum it up, if nothing is missing nevermind what Webmaster Tools report. I am so used to seeing 900+ not founds that it doesn’t bother me any more.
If you changed the link structure, you should 301 all those to the new strcture, will be an instant help!
@allfreechips 241679 wrote:
If you changed the link structure, you should 301 all those to the new strcture, will be an instant help!
What help? WordPress handles those well already and none of my visitors get sent to a 404 page on the website. I could care less how Webmaster Tools sees it
.well sounds odd, if webmaster tools is hitting 404 errors that is link juice your losing. If wordpress is handling that then they should be 301 to the new page and webmaster tools should not see a 404.
Incorrect. The 404s I see in Webmaster Tools are all coming from external scraper sites, that point towards stuff that’s not there anymore. Can’t see what sort of a link juice you are talking about. I myself don’t point to those none existing pages. Those external sites are.
@allfreechips 241728 wrote:
well sounds odd, if webmaster tools is hitting 404 errors that is link juice your losing. If wordpress is handling that then they should be 301 to the new page and webmaster tools should not see a 404.
What is an efficient way to 301 all those files
( I only have a 100 )
I noticed a few of my 404’s are coming back after like a few weeks of being saying its fine. I can’t work it out, It says a page is there that isn’t on my hosting file manager and not on the page i’m uploading. Bugger of a thing.
Yeah, it’s well known by some. There are other cases too. Some times you just have to know where to look.
@rmeeuwsen 241738 wrote:
What is an efficient way to 301 all those files
( I only have a 100 )
If it was a from a link structure change, then a single link in .htaccess shuld be possible, if its small amounts and say you had 30 external pages pointing to one or two you could do them individually.
if they are just crap external links, ie nothing was ever there then simply leave as 404.
I just 301 redirect all of those from other sites to a custom 404 page.
Of course if its one I caused, usually an internal link typo I fix it.
You can chase them down until you pass out but there will always be more.
Don’t say they’re fixed it they’re really not.
Let me add that I used to do it in my htaccess file but found out that I could just enter the custom 404 page in my host account. It works just like the bounce back url feature RA offers.
