Need help how to detect 404 Hits
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Hi
I see in webalizer that about 40% of the hits to my site results in a 404 Not Found error.
I want to solve this problem, but don't know how to pinpoint the problem.
Things I've tryed:
* Contacted the support at the host, asking for getting a copy of the log files. They cannot give that cause of shared hosting
* Created a NoSuchPage.aspx webpage, so when a 404 is triggered the user is redirected to this webpage. This webpage writes to the database which page the user originally wanted to reach
But think maybe Hits may not be catched by the NoSuchPage technique as it counts for every request done by a browser back to the webserver. In a asp.net usergroup a dude thought maybe it's because of a missing image, doubt that as my site is using only 1 image so easy to see it found in the browser...
It could also be someone have created a lot of false backlinks to my site. Which creates the 404 problem.
Last week my site dropped in SERP from #40 til #500, so thought this 404 was worth looking into.
any ideas how to pinpoint the 404 problem? Any tool you know of that can help?
I see in webalizer that about 40% of the hits to my site results in a 404 Not Found error.
I want to solve this problem, but don't know how to pinpoint the problem.
Things I've tryed:
* Contacted the support at the host, asking for getting a copy of the log files. They cannot give that cause of shared hosting
* Created a NoSuchPage.aspx webpage, so when a 404 is triggered the user is redirected to this webpage. This webpage writes to the database which page the user originally wanted to reach
But think maybe Hits may not be catched by the NoSuchPage technique as it counts for every request done by a browser back to the webserver. In a asp.net usergroup a dude thought maybe it's because of a missing image, doubt that as my site is using only 1 image so easy to see it found in the browser...
It could also be someone have created a lot of false backlinks to my site. Which creates the 404 problem.
Last week my site dropped in SERP from #40 til #500, so thought this 404 was worth looking into.
any ideas how to pinpoint the 404 problem? Any tool you know of that can help?
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