Title: Massive 404 page attack
Last modified: July 27, 2017

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# Massive 404 page attack

 *  [onlineipi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onlineipi/)
 * (@onlineipi)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-404-page-attack/)
 * Recently I have been notified by Google that their crawl has identified >12000
   links with 404 error on my website ipi-infrared.com.au
 * These links are bogus and are linked to the pages which again give 404 pages.
 * Can someone tell me how I can counter this problem? How can I stop someone or
   something that is creating these many bogus URLs on my website?

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 *  [cesarnjos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cesarnjos/)
 * (@cesarnjos)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-404-page-attack/#post-9356804)
 * Hi there!
 * please take a look here:
    [https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/11/404-errors-search-console-spam-seo.html](https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/11/404-errors-search-console-spam-seo.html)
 * There is not much that can be done in terms of if someone really wants to continue
   that spam to fix it permanently.
 * The most important part is that those 404’s have no effect on your SEO so you
   may as well just choose to ignore it.
    You only need to worry if any of those
   links starts to result in a 200 or if they even start appearing on your Search
   Engine results page. Thanks!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [cesarnjos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cesarnjos/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/massive-404-page-attack/#post-9356804)
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