Massive numbers of "false" 404 Errors…

  • nickaster

    (@nickaster)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Recently I installed the “404 Notifier” plugin. And turns out I have a massive number of 404 errors, 1000s in fact.

    So I pulled up the crawl errors in Google’s Webmaster Tools and sure enough! Here they are:

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    All listed under “Not Found”

    The trouble is almost NONE OF THOSE are actually bad URLs. I’ve clicked on a dozen and they all work just fine to me!

    Why does Google think those are bad links? Is my Google Juice screwed up?

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  • Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    So I did a little more reserach and the vast majority of what “404 Notifier” is reporting are redirects from old URLs which changed. So nobody is landing on a 404 page… but I guess the robots are being tricked into thinking it’s a 404?

    Here’s an example:

    http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/10/29/software-to-hold-greenwashers-accountable/

    If you visit that URL, it slightly changes via a redirect. But it throws me a 404 message! Have I done something bad?

    Thread Starter nickaster

    (@nickaster)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Any conceptos out there? Have you run this check on your site? Now I have like 4000 errors, but almost none of them seem to be real errors!

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