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OMG~ I really don’t know how I manage to have a website. I didn’t understand the AddThis directions, at all. Now that I do, the problem is solved (but only after trying half a dozen other plugins, reading reviews etc.).

Nope, darn it. Wait, I missed the bit about dropping it down to 90…..
I’m going to try that!

Thanks, CrouchingBruin, that was really interesting. So ultimately it’s a matter of it being necessary to redirect from whichever you aren’t using, to that you are using.

I do wish I’d chosen NON…. I really like the way your LadyEagles site looks, without.

I received statistics from SiteLock which I use primarily because it speeds up the delivery of my sites. I was shocked at how many bots try to visit my sites. I suppose it could be bots that make my site statistics higher than my Google statistics, though the idea is supposed to be that SiteLock is stopping the bots…

Still the numbers were many hundreds of bots as compared to one human… Does that seem realistic to you?

Hi CrouchingBruin,
Happiness! I’m happy to have brought something to you that you can use.

I’m not sure how the canonical thing works, but maybe it has to do with the DNS thing and any change takes an hour to a day…

I think all my sites are backwards, non to www. I wish Google explained things as clearly as you do.

Have a happy Week! Thank you for all your help!

Hi CrouchingBruin ~ I’ve been thinking about your reply. It alerted me to what the problem may be. See, I didn’t understood the permalink thing for months and months. I read about it, but didn’t get it.

I don’t do blogs, I do pages because my site is basically a site. I do a few blogs because they offer a way to be seen that’s beyond my basic menu.

But, when I’m stressed I sometimes choose “new” in the Admin Bar and fail to properly choose New Page. WP offers Post as the default, not exactly, but sort of. So if I don’t pay attention I get a post that I then have to make into a page. Which is harder than it probably should be.

That may be why the errors keep showing up, because I’ve used the 301 redirect plugin to “confirm” that they are pages, not posts, but Google may want posts if they started out as posts.

Thank you a lot for helping me see this problem from a perspective that seems to make it clearer.

Karen

Hi CrouchingBruin,
Yes, I think it has to do with permalinks because I don’t use the date format, I can’t remember time very well, and each of the 404s seemed to have a date in it. Some of the 404s happened before and I already had 301s for them, so I’m still a little baffled.

I think that page that shows up must be the WP Not Found page. It’s not among my pages, so I guess it’s in the Control Panel. I hardly ever go there.

I was back up to 700+ page views, but this seems to have dropped me down again.

My old site on Yahoo appears to have hidden the http results, and I have 35 Not Found among them b/c the php I used to do permanent redirects to my new sites appears not to work for the http version.

You must have a Wonderfully clear mind to understand websites so well.

I’m really glad you help the rest of us!

Karen

Hi CrouchingBruin, you’re like the silver lining in the otherwise dark cloud of … bafflement.

I know what a 404 is, the thing is that all those pages exist. They are posts, though, not pages.

I have a plugin that I can use to direct a 404 page to a real live page, but I don’t understand what’s causing the 404s.

Is each page shown on the 404 page a 404 page in itself?

I’ll go do that now, about unchecking the Feed links. I just wondered if Google was actually saying that they had to be there or there’d be a 404… I must be having a very dense day!