Roger says I have 378 404 errors

[Cuffsmaster]

Hi

The report shows that I have 404 errors in the about of almost 300   but they appear to me to be active and part of the site.   ???

Examples:

NOTE: warning -   these pages discuss BDSM and have some nude images

here are some on the list

http://bestslavetraining.com/groups/discipline-and-punishment/?acpage=6

http://bestslavetraining.com/groups/general-b-d-s-m/?acpage=13

also here is one that does not work

http://bestslavetraining.com/activity/activity/

WHY does it show 404 errors for urls that work???   what am I missing and what in the world am I to correct if they appear on the SEOmoz  error log.???

[Cuffsmaster]

Hi and thank you

You said that you hop it helps -   I am sure it will as soon as I figure out what you told me LOL    -  Thank you.    I am glad you gave me a place to start.

Ater your reply, I did check GWT and do have many 404's I didn't realize. Howevery a quick looks shows they are not the same as the ones listed in SEOmoz.   Don't know what that's about.

It will take me a while to figure this out LOL  Hell I just figured out what the term "SEO"  means a few weeks ago .   I am a writer and photographer not a SEO so the cure will be slow.

Again thank you  -  I will read it again and again lol

Cuffsmaster - bestslavetraining.com

Jeff Davis

[danatanseo]

Hi Jeffrey. Many times these are 404's produced by sites trying to link to you that perhaps have an incomplete URL, or incorrect URL. Have you looked at your Google Webmaster Tools 404 errors? You can see there where the source is. If the source is on your site, keep in mind that sometime URLs can be abbreviated in hypertext and still work when clicked, but a bot will take the URL very literally and not see the rest of it, consequently producing a 404. The way SEOMoz q & A posts abbreviate URLs is a good example. When you click on them they work, but if you copy-and-pasted just the snippet that's visible on the page into a browser, it would produce a 404.

A lot of online Web comparison tools and even occasionally some directories will display truncated URLs, that might look like this for example:  "http://bestslavetraining.com/activity/ac.."  I would check them in GWT (you may have already done that) and see if the culprits are mostly external or internal.  Hope that helps a little.