Need help with 404

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I can not grasp for some reason this whole 301/404 redirect stuff. I look in my webmaster tools and get like 23 404 errors. I really do not know why or how to get this working right. I use Yoast and also just turned off breadcrumbs if that matters. Can anyone help me out with this? Is there a setting that is easy to use to just have everything point to my home page? I am using Customizr Theme if that helps any

Thanks

all 404 errors

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/modules/image/

uncategorized/hello-world/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/cache/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/js/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/

uncategorized/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/twbs/css/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/modules/fb-like-widget/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/modules/folded-corner/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/twbs/js/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/twbs/img/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/frames/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/bootstrap/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/css/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/bootstrap/img/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/modules/folded-corner/images/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/modules/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/layouts/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/includes/layout-settings.php

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/fonts/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/includes/layout-selector.php

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/css/jqui/theme/images/

wp-content/plugins/page-layout-builder/modules/richtext/
#programming #404
  • A 404 page is a missing page. It's usually a template or basic HTML page that says, "Yo, you went somewhere you shouldn't have" or "This article no longer exists". I'm sure you know this.

    A 301 is a permanent redirect. This is what you want to use instead of a 404 (if you have content or a page to redirect to).

    What it looks like to me is some pages are being indexed and they shouldn't be. Pages that matter are pages that are accessible by regular users, not admins who are logged in with admin permissions.

    So if you go to http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/pl...modules/image/ that (looks like) it should be a directory for images. Unless you want to display it as a list of images in that directory, you may want to prevent search engines from indexing that. There's two ways to do this:
    1) Add a robots.txt file to your base directory. (A quick google seach will give you examples and help - for a very extensive example look at http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt)
    2) If you have any links in on your page that go to that directory, add the attribute: rel="nofollow" to your a tag. (more info here: https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/96569?hl=en)

    Alternatively in your webmaster tools you can demote URL's. Simply add the full URL and Google will stop showing results linking to those specific pages.

    Lastly, if you have a sitemap (sitemap.xml, ./sitemap/, sitemap.php, etc) make sure all the links in there are valid. Otherwise when you add your sitemap to webmaster tools, you'll be faced with lots of 404's.

    Hope this helps!

    Cheers
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    • Thank yo for the reply, I will look at the links you sent me. I submitted a sitemap but none of those are in it. I guess Google just indexes those for some reason.

      Thanks again.
  • The easier one for me would be to do it through webmaster tools. I am not sure why they indexed these anyways. Do I go under Google Index>remove URL'S and add all those URL to be removed?

    My sitemap is all ok.

    Thanks
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    • What is the link to your site? Do you get the errors if you are not logged in as admin?
  • Most likely your robots.txt file is now missing this:
    Code:
    User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
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    • Thanks SJL Now I added this in my root domain and saved it, but in Webmaster tools still shows old one. Anything else I need to do? or does it take a while to change?
      User-agent: *
      Disallow: /wp-admin/
      Disallow: /wp-includes/
      Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
  • Never mind... I got it to work. Will see if they come back. Thank you for the easy guide..
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    Need help with 404

    I can not grasp for some reason this whole 301/404 redirect stuff. I look in my webmaster tools and get like 23 404 errors. I really do not know why or how to get this working right. I use Yoast and also just turned off breadcrumbs if that matters. Can anyone help me out with this? Is there a setting that is easy to use to just have everything point to my home page? I am using Customizr Theme if that helps any Thanks