2000 Active pages 404 on LIVE Ecommerce site - what will google do now?
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Hi All,
One of my ecommerce site having more than 20,000 pages from that one of the categories having 2000 pages showing 404 and still taking time for developer to fix this issue and may be they will be able to fix after 2-3 days so is this okay with google or google will take any action during this period?
Thanks!
Dev
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It is very unlikely that you would receive any penalties for having 404 errors in such a short time frame. It is common for 404 errors to happen, from others linking to pages on your site that don't exist or removed content. Search engines typically just ignore the pages and move on.
It would only be problematic if your site continually creates new 404 errors. This would show a pattern of bad site design and may hurt you.
Hope this helps,
Don
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Actually bing webmaster tool has given me this error today that means this pages might be having 404 before few days back so is it okay if i take few more days?
It will not penalize or drop of ranking for my site right?
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Im assuming your pages have been crawled? Obviously if Google has crawled them they will be flagged as having errors. Once they are repaired Google will crawl them again. You should be fine if it is only for a few days.
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