Webmaster Not found URLs
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Dear All, I would really like help with this. Due to some unknown reason (another thread is open for this reason), my google webmaster is showing 7000 not found URL's. Now, when i try to find out the day these broken URLs were detected, webmaster is showing dates between November 2011 to December 2nd, 2011. I havent found a single not found error showing after 2nd December 2011. So does that mean that the mistake has been solved? Because daily webmaster is adding 200-300 not found URLs. Along with this, my traffic has dropped drastically since 12th December and has still not recovered. Are these not found URLs the reason for this sudden traffic drop? If so, then i m ready to find someone for paid seo to remove this error. I would love to have some concrete answers for these questions. Thanksss
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Well every redirect leaks link juice, why would you want to remove catagory from your urls?
I would not do this
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The redirection is happening because of the new SEO plugin by yoast which removes category from URL. that is why these many redirections. Is that too bad? Are these changes which are happening causing google to reindex my site??
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This page here for example has many broken links, but they all 301 to your home page,
You should not 301 all missing pages to your home page, search engines will stop trusting your redirects if you do this, they will not get link juice for them, they will be treated as broken links. Get rid of the catch all 301 then fix your broken links.
You also have a lot of un-necessary redirects, you should make these links point directly to the destination to save link juice example
The link to "http://www.marketing91.com/category/advertising/tv-commercials/" has resulted in HTTP redirection to "http://www.marketing91.com/advertising/tv-commercials/".I will get this in order first. it makes it hard to work out what going on with all this un-necessary redirecting
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Can you give us a URL, so we can work it out?
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