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How can I clear the "crawl errors" of Google webmaster tools?

by mmovlg
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On my webmaster tools page, there are some "Not found" crawl errors dating back two years which I cleared up a long time ago, but they are still hanging around on webmaster tools. I thought they would go away naturally once the mistaken links were fixed, but they don't seem to. Is there any way to clear old crawl errors manually?


Crawl errors

HTTP 6
In Sitemaps 1,627
Not followed 48
Not found 2,731
Restricted by robots.txt 3,090
Soft 404s 720
Unreachable 31
Updated Oct 18, 2011
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  • Profile picture of the author ronuraldd
    I think this is just the history or archive kind of thing showing up... This won't be much problem to your site..
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  • Profile picture of the author mmovlg
    Thanks for your answer, but I think it may relate Panda
    I want to clear them, but i can't do
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  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
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    My site is 4 months old and I'm still getting new crawl errors almost everyday...

    Mainly they are "pages not found" that I have deleted. These take time to disappear from your webmaster.
    There's no problem to your site if you have these, though.

    If however, its showing up page not found for a bunch of pages that you still have up and running....then you have something to worry about.
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  • Profile picture of the author ttkim
    Waiting doesn't help. At least, it didn't for me and I waited a long time. I didn't quite wait 2 years like you did, but it wouldn't go away.

    You have to redirect those non-existing pages to an existing one. Even if you mistyped a link and Google listed it as a crawl error, just fixing the link generally won't work. You'll have to create a page for that "typo link" and redirect it to the correct page. This made my crawl errors disappear after a few days.
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  • Profile picture of the author samual james
    you need to redirect your non existing pages to existing page , and just wait for few days
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  • Profile picture of the author mmovlg
    I will check it out and post here back my results
    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author ckollars
    Here's what I did (it's currently April 2012, it may have been different in the past, and it may be different in the future). I just noticed (after looking at the same page many many times) there was a checkbox beside each entry. First I fixed any legitimate errors (my .htaccess is a mess). Then I checked each and every box. Then a button on the screen titled "Mark As Fixed" turned a brighter shade of red and became clickable. When I clicked the button, all the errors went away. (Then I received a warning message to the effect that if they were legitimate and hadn't actually been fixed, they would "come back" fairly soon.)
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    • Profile picture of the author fraakz
      These crawl error happen to emerge when your incoming links are pointing towards any 404 pages in your website. Simply find the source and if its is from high quality source redirect the link to pass link juice towards your homepage otherwise simple make it as fixed and ignore
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  • Profile picture of the author ThatAblaze
    Like ck said, if you want to remove the old ones just check them and click "mark as fixed". You would think G would be smart enough to clean up the old ones, but it really isn't. You have to.

    When you mark them as fixed the count will drop the next time your site is crawled.
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  • Profile picture of the author AbdullahKhan
    I have a same problem... how to solve this issue ??
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  • Profile picture of the author Techno3
    Just Select the Pages you think are Deleted or Gone and Then Click On "Mark as Fixed"

    Hope it Helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author webpiter
    I like what you guys are up also.
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