Increasing in 404 errors that doesnt exist
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Hi
First of all I should say that I have error in the old webmaster not the new one.
I have two WordPress blog in root and subfolder.
Today I checked my webmaster and recognize that I had 100 errors (404) that found in few days ago.
My root WordPress is OK but subfolder WordPress has error. Let me show you by example.
http://example.com/subfolder/article15245
I had error for this page:
http://example.com/article15245
looks like this subfolder deleted
I checked my links, but all of them were OK and linked to the right URL.
unfortunately this errors dont have "linked from" section
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Thanks for your reply
Today I redirect most of these links to the right post, but it was such a borning task.
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The page by page redirection is necessary to preserve any link juice from any incoming links to the pages in question. You can throw the links into Ahrefs or look at them in Moz to see if the pages have any links that are worth saving. Also, SEO press has the ability to edit the HTACCESS built into the plugin. But you can also do wordpress level redirects as well. It's pretty awesome.
Hope that helps.
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You can put the domain here, I'm sure lots of people would like to weigh in on this it's an interesting problem
I have replied to your email
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Redirect one by one? its so boring!
Does The section "linked from" updates for these links?
I use redirection plugin instead of htaccess. Its more safe
What happen if I don't redirect them for recognizing why these errors occur?
Thanks for your respond
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Thanks for your perfect answer.
I checked these links in moz link explorer but no link found. i think this is an internal problem because most of my subfolder links (over 70%) become 404.
I have redirection plugin. It has 404 sections that shows last visitors that gone to the 404 pages but no reports like this error found!
As you said it seems I should redirect them with .htaccess
Thanks , I emailed my domain for you.
Can I put my domain here for others to check?
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I would just 301 all the pages to the final URLs in prod, verify that they are working individually, then Fetch & Render. Many plugins like SEO press or Yoast will allow you to upload them in bulk to help save time. Or you can always update your HTACCESS file with the redirect. If you are working in Excel or Sheets, using the Find/Replace to bulk edit can be a life saver. It is usually pretty boring, but not the worst in the world. Cheers!
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It's so annoying when things like that happen! When Google refuses to give the 'linked from' data, it's a real head-test working out where the links are coming from. Did you know that the links could even be coming from other websites, not just your own? When a user follows a link to your site (regardless of where that link is from), Google consider it your error if a valid page isn't returned
Since this error is only occurring in the old area of WMT, it probably doesn't matter much. That being said, one simple fix would be to 301 redirect all the broken links, to the functional article pages. After that you can just bulk mark them all as fixed
Usually I tell people to fix the actual link, but if it's an external link which you have no control over (or if Google can't even be bothered to tell you what the linking page is) then 301 and mark as fixed is probably your best bet. Especially since, these are only individual article pages (it's not like a malformed version of your homepage or something)
If you email me the domain (check my profile page) then I might be able to crawl your site for you to determine whether there are any obviously broken internal links. Regardless, you'd want the 301s as a back-stop anyway
Hope that helps
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