I also need an answer to this, as I believe it is harming my Google ranking. Why are the Googlebots searching for pages I never created?
This always happens – I search and search, can’t find an answer, post, then immediately after posting, find the answer.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/do-404s-hurt-my-site.html
More than likely, these 404 errors are caused by broken links to your site. If you changed your permalink structure, tags or categories, then this can happen.
Here is a WP plugin you can use to help fix these errors:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/
It is very important that you fix these, since it will effect your site performance, SEO and rankings.
Hope this helps.
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I have the same problem, thing is… As this person said, it has nothing to do with broken links on my site, 100s of URLs to pages that never existed on my site returning 404 errors to googlebot.
My site has over 500 hits for this url:
http://www.miceliproductions.com/wpsite/wp-content/themes/Soon/css/tipsy.css?ver=2.3
-What does it mean and how can I resolve the issue?
Thanks.
I never did discover the answer. I did not see the missed URLs show up in my google analytics reports even though is was google bot that supposedly was looking for the URLs. I am going to guess that it is some sort of other problem, which isn’t really a problem, it happens occasionally, usually in like a 12 hour period.
It is very frustrating I know, I never found a resolution.
