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404 (Not Found) Crawl Errors

by redstanford
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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/ed​ges​tar​-32​-bo​ttl​e-d​ual​-zo​ne-​win​e-c​ool​er

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?
#404 #crawl #errors #found
  • Profile picture of the author Wechito
    Make sure you don't have internal links pointing to the old URLs.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      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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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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      • Profile picture of the author redstanford
        how do i make a custom error page?
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