404 (Not Found) Crawl Errors

redstanford · 04-03-2011, 04:15 PM

i went to google webmaster tools and realized i have (8) 404 (Not Found) URL's on my site which is actually doing well in the SERPs for it's young age.

About 2 months ago, a couple warriors recommended shortening the permalinks for each of my posts from:

website dot com/edgestar-32-bottle-dual-zone-wine-cooler

to

to website dot com/edgestar-32-bottle

is there a way to clear up these issues because all my posts now have shortened up permalinks? will these crawl errors hurt my SERP positioning down the line?

Wechito · 04-03-2011, 04:50 PM

Make sure you don't have internal links pointing to the old URLs.

paulgl · 04-03-2011, 05:28 PM

You did not mention what pages are not found.

Many times bots try and find pages that are not there because
they are programmed to look for certain pages. It does not
mean something is wrong. If you know a page exists, your
server may have hiccuped for a second when someone tried
to access a page. Those errors are very common.

The best thing you can do is make a custom 404 error page.
You should have that anyway.

Paul

redstanford · 04-03-2011, 05:50 PM

how do i make a custom error page?

04-03-2011, 04:15 PM	#1
redstanford Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 926 Thanks: 55 Thanked 62 Times in 27 Posts	404 (Not Found) Crawl Errors i went to google webmaster tools and realized i have (8) 404 (Not Found) URL's on my site which is actually doing well in the SERPs for it's young age. About 2 months ago, a couple warriors recommended shortening the permalinks for each of my posts from: website dot com/edgestar-32-bottle-dual-zone-wine-cooler to to website dot com/edgestar-32-bottle is there a way to clear up these issues because all my posts now have shortened up permalinks? will these crawl errors hurt my SERP positioning down the line?

04-03-2011, 04:50 PM	#2
Wechito Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 551 Thanks: 72 Thanked 74 Times in 68 Posts Social Networking	Re: 404 (Not Found) Crawl Errors Make sure you don't have internal links pointing to the old URLs.
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04-03-2011, 05:28 PM	#3
paulgl Plundering the Web War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: , , . Posts: 4,849 Thanks: 804 Thanked 1,199 Times in 886 Posts	Re: 404 (Not Found) Crawl Errors You did not mention what pages are not found. Many times bots try and find pages that are not there because they are programmed to look for certain pages. It does not mean something is wrong. If you know a page exists, your server may have hiccuped for a second when someone tried to access a page. Those errors are very common. The best thing you can do is make a custom 404 error page. You should have that anyway. Paul
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04-03-2011, 05:50 PM	#4
redstanford Advanced Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 926 Thanks: 55 Thanked 62 Times in 27 Posts	Re: 404 (Not Found) Crawl Errors how do i make a custom error page?