Posted 9 months ago #
How do i remove crawl errors or eliminate 404? I never had any of the pages and posts in first place.
i have already done the 301 redirect some of the important URLs. I have resubmitted the index.
Yet, google webmaster bounced back the URL/CRAWL errors on the URLS that never existed. How can I get rid of them?
Thanks!
Posted 9 months ago #
Look at the "crawl errors" page in Webmaster Tool, and click on a 404 URL. Then look at the "linked From" tab. If those "Linked From" URLS are URLs from your site, then your theme is generating bad URLs and you will need to find where. If those URLs are from another site, the best you can do is redirect close matches and contact the owners of the originating sites. They may be willing to correct the links. Then again, it may not be worth it. It is a lot of work. If it is your theme, we might be able to help, so check those "Linked from" URLs.
Posted 9 months ago #
i did check the "linked from" URLS. it displayed no data.
it is neither from my site nor another site.
Posted 9 months ago #
Create a correct sitemap and submit it.
Posted 9 months ago #
how does one do this?
i have a sitemap generator plugin installed. Can i do it with this plugin?
do i have to "fetch as google" in the webmaster and then submit for index?
i could use more explanation. Thanks :)
Posted 9 months ago #
XML Sitemaps is a great tool (requires creating the sitemap file then uploading it.) Once the sitemap is in place, use your webmaster tools to submit it.
If you have daily content, it's not a best solution, but having a wrong sitemap with crawl errors for a long time is worse than a sitemap without current content.
Posted 9 months ago #
You have a sitemap at http://www.unlockchiropractic.com/sitemap.xml which is generated by your plugin. Are any of those 'bad' URLs?
The only time I have seen 'no data' for "Linked From" is for newly crawled pages. Check tomorrow or the next day. You need to find out where the bad links come from to address the problem.
Posted 9 months ago #
ok just submitted it and will follow up with the results. thanks! :)
the sitemape you gave me contained no bad urls. I am familiar with each tags and urls.
check the screenshots of the crawl errors. you can compare it to the sitemap.
http://i47.tinypic.com/qyd95f.png
http://i46.tinypic.com/nv2maa.png
in the screenshots, those URLs are irrelevants and non-existant.
Posted 9 months ago #
Could it be because of my tags? my tags are not working when i click on them. It gave a 404 not found error.
how do i fix the tags?
Posted 9 months ago #
Yes, bad tags will produce 404 responses, but at least some of your tags work. I tried this one, for example, http://www.unlockchiropractic.com/tag/chiropractic/ And only a few of those URLs in the screenshots are tags.
The puzzling part is that Google doesn't just make up URLs, though. Google got those URLs from somewhere and those screenshots look like URLs generated by WordPress, and by your site, not by some other site. Despite your headline, did those pages exist in the past? Have you deleted posts or pages? If so, the report is legitimate. You can't fix it. There is nothing to fix. The pages were there and now they are not. Just ride it out until Google drops them from its index.
Posted 9 months ago #
yes, i think these pages exists in the past. In the beginning when i was making website, i was not really familiar with wordpress, permalinks and pages. I probably must have made and then delete it. I have also deleted wordpress hoping to delete old files and then re-install it hoping to overwrite existing formats and themes. as if to start completely over.
but now im statisfied with things. I have re-directed some of the permalinks using a 301 redirect methods.
So, those URLS in screenshot doesn't exist anymore. I hope Google drops them from index. it'll be annoying to see those crawl errors getting accumulated.
Posted 9 months ago #
I have also deleted wordpress hoping to delete old files and then re-install it hoping to overwrite existing formats and themes. as if to start completely over.
That won't help. If you deleted those posts (contrary to your initial statement of what was happening) they don't exist on your site. The problem is that Google found them before you deleted them. The pages are listed in Google's index, which exists independently of your site. reinstalling your site won't do anything to remove the pages from Google's index.
Google will drop them eventually. It can take several months though. Don't worry too much about it. It doesn't really cause that much harm.
Posted 9 months ago #
ok thank you! :) I really appreciate your help and inputs!
Posted 8 months ago #
one more thing, what do these facebook url came from??
for example in the screenshots, you can see the http://www.facebook.com/unlockchiropractic.com
where do these come from?
it's weird. any idea what can cause this?
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