Wordpress Plugin Causing Mobile Switcher 404 Errors
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Hi All,
Has anyone seen this 404 error before? I installed a wordpress plugin that would allow users to switch between a mobile and desktop theme. This was about 6 months ago and I thought nothing of it.
Since I am new to SeoMoz, I have become aware of this lovely problem. After setting up my campaign, I now have 1600 something 404 errors due to this plugin. It looks like this plugin creates 4 to 5 links for each one of my posts and they all return up as a 404 error.
Example:
http://frogfanreport.com/football/page/36/
or
http://frogfanreport.com/football/page/36/?wpmp_switcher=desktop
I just noticed this morning in Google Webmaster tools that the errors are starting to show up there.
Has anyone seen this? Or know if this is a problem and what to do?
zach
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Works perfectly thanks. Guess we will see over time if it stops errors from occuring.
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We use WPTouch, which is pretty easy to use and seems to work well. It was having issues with WP Super Cache.
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I was using Wordpress Mobile Pack. It is currently deactivated but would like to find something that works. Any recommendations?
Also, the only cache that I know off the top of my head is with XML Site Map generator. I can enable that. Is that what you are talking about or should I look somewhere else?
Thanks for responding...
z
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Not sure what plug-in you're using, but my non-profit's website had a similar issue earlier this year where some of the mobile traffic would randomly 404 or show a non-mobile person the mobile site. We found that it was a conflict between that plug-in and another we were using to cache the site. We went ahead and got rid of the cache plug-in, which had numerous issues including slowing down our site, and that seemed to solve it.
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