a friend created lots of 404.. how to fix

by nenala
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Hi guys...

I have made a mistake.. I always had a bad feeling about it.. but in order to help out a friend.. I allowed her to enter my wordpress account and run some bullshit she needed for her own site. She never explained me what exactly was her plan (STUPID ME) I would never allow her to do so as I knew what was acually happening.. So she kind of loaded something trough my site.. basicly all her fashion related articles (I am in a complete different niche) where loaded on my site and I had to manualy delete them out my bin... now... of course (DUHHH) a bunch of 404 errors show up. My site is very young and I am just starting.. now I have like 150 (and counting!!!) 404 from her &(&%shit... I am affraid its gonna hurt my rankings.. actually.. I already went down like 60% and I am affraid it could have something to do with this completely irrelevant 404 pages... WHAT on earth can I do? And yes I know how stupid I have been to allow acces to somebody.. but she was begging me and I had NO idea that she was going to load shit over page...... So now what can I do? Can it really be that this is going to hurt my rankings (or already is..)
and can I really get rid of it?

Thanks for the help guys...
#404 #created #fix #friend #lots
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Not really much else you can do. You deleted the pages. Make sure your sitemap is updated and re-submit that. You can go into Webmaster Tools and remove the URLs too, but Google will figure it out eventually.
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  • Profile picture of the author nenala
    so i am screwed? can this really hurt my site????
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    You'll be fine. Really is not that big of a deal.
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  • Profile picture of the author nenala
    that much of a deal? should I block them with robot.txt? the content is completely irrelevant to my site... or ..
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by nenala View Post

      that much of a deal? should I block them with robot.txt? the content is completely irrelevant to my site... or ..
      You deleted them. No need to block anything.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by nenala View Post

      that much of a deal? should I block them with robot.txt? the content is completely irrelevant to my site... or ..
      Calm down. It does not matter.

      Your friend did not create a lot of 404, you did.

      You make some odd statements like,
      "completely irrelevant 404 pages"....you actually only have one,
      at the most...or none.

      If you mean you deleted a bunch of pages, well....that's having a bunch
      of pages that are not being found. But then, you can't really have a bunch
      of pages....if they are not found.

      Your best option is to indeed delete anything you don't want...which is a common
      practice....and have a custom 404 page.

      So, go out and create a stellar 404 custom error page.

      How on earth would it hurt your rankings? Like those pages were...ranking?

      The internet is full of boatlaods of 404 errors. Funny thing, I get them on
      google help pages all the friggin' time...and their custom 404 error page SUCKS!

      While you are at it, learn something about robots.txt as well.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author MoRaitman
    It won't hurt u at all. Just make sure if she is targeting any of your subscribers or friends that they don't make the same mistake.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Actually 404s can %$#@ ranked positions in the SERPs.

    If a ranked page was ranked with internal links & those pages that included the internal links are 404 your ranked position in the SERPs is toast. Doubtful OP has anything to worry about since the pages were built by someone else, it's not like he was using them to rank other pages in this case.

    OP change your site/admin. passwords.
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