Strange 404 Error(Answered)
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Hi everyone!
I recently took over a new account and I was running an initial crawl on the site and a weird 404 error popped up.
http://www.directcolors.com/products/liquid-colored-antique/top
http://www.directcolors.com/applications/concrete-antiquing/top
http://www.directcolors.com/applications/concrete-countertops/topI understand that the **top **could be referring to an actual link that brings users to the top of a page, but on these pages there is no such link. Am I missing something?
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Thank you.
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Thanks.
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Thanks! That is what I get for looking at things at 2am...completely oblivious to look into the actual source code to pull that tag off. Next time I'll ask a question in the morning!
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you might want to check out the source code.
If that is the "Go to Top" type of link. you will see < a href="#top">(anchor text) The location of the anchor text will be<a name="top"></a>
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Hi Blake
In the source code, at the beginning of the tag, you have a <a href="<a href="http://www.directcolors.com/products/liquid-colored-antique/top" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">top"> bit of code.</a href="<a>
This won't be doing anything apart from creating a 404 error, so you can remove it.
Incidentally, if your client or you are looking at how to place internal anchors on a page, this is a great guide on how to do it.
As the article says, for any link like this to work it would need to be in the of the HTML, not the as it currently is.
Hope this helps
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This: <a <span="" class="webkit-html-tag">href</a><a <span="" class="webkit-html-tag">="</a>top">
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