Java script links in Wordpress causing 404 not found
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hi everyone, I've just done a moz crawl on my new site and am getting as few 404 errors on certain urls
http://www.wilsonfield.co.uk/services/equity-finance/197/
after analyzing the link its the 197 which is a href="#197", this is controlled by javascript to show hide additional data
Is there anyway to stop these links being crawled or fixing the 404 as there is no /197 it is just a link to hidden content
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Alternatively you could do this an entirely different, and better IMHO, way by putting all of that content ON the page and using div tags with "display:none" that will change to display the content when the link is clicked, activating an on-click javascript event. This sounds complicated but really it is what most eCommerce stores do when they have tabbed content (e.g. product description, details, specs, shipping....) that doesn't all display at once and requires a user to click a tab to show the content there.
Here is a simple example with information on how to implement it.
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I assume one of the places this issue can be found is on your About page where the visitor can learn more about each member of the team.
I am not a developer and am going to speak about this to the best of my knowledge. It may not be "technically" accurate, but I hope it will be more helpful to you than complicating the situation...
The URL being linked to, such as .../194 should probably be /#!194 instead, which would allow you to change the content via AJAX without changing the URL of the page (as a hashbang URL is treated much like an internal page link, known as a named anchor, which takes you to a different part of the page instead of a new page/URL).
Please see https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started for more information on implementing Google-friendly, crawlable content with AJAX.
I will leave this question open for discussion in case others have more to add.
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Last Modified Found.Server Response HTTP/1.1 200 OKHTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:25:03 GMTServer: Apache/2.2.16Last-Modified: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:08:36 GMTAccept-Ranges: bytesContent-Length: 35798Cache-Control: max-age=3, must-revalidateExpires: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:25:06 GMTVary: Accept-Encoding,CookieContent-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8You also have an issue where your server When not adding the #197 is not rendering a 304 this is a signal to Google that there has been changes in your site and necessary.http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/if-modified/ just to be on the safe side I checked your site for any Malware what I did find is an internal Path errorhttp://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.wilsonfield.co.uk/services/equity-finance/ on the URL without the hash tagWordpress internal path: /www/sites/248/ccf/www.wilsonfield.co.uk/web/wp-content/themes/wilsonfield/index.php now using the same test and adjust your domain I get a error and you can see the first error is WP-Ajax-response.JS I think that is your issueWeb application version:
WordPress version: WordPress
Wordpress version from source: 3.6
Wordpress Version 3.5 for: http://www.wilsonfield.co.uk/wp-includes/js/wp-ajax-response.js
WordPress theme: http://www.wilsonfield.co.uk/wp-content/themes/wilsonfield/
Wordpress internal path: /www/sites/248/ccf/www.wilsonfield.co.uk/web/wp-content/themes/wilsonfield/index.php you may also want to look at the results here and see all the URLs listedhttp://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.wilsonfield.co.uk so you know I get similar issues when I tried to scan your exact URL using the hash taghttp://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.wilsonfield.co.uk/services/equity-finance/197/ I hope this helps you, Thomas -
I agree with you it most likely is the #197
however Google bot is able to crawl your site. The most effective method I can think of is to take the site that is not intentionally hidden from Google and 301 redirect it to the proper URL.
After that then take the new URL and add it to google index via Webmaster tools as well as posted on twitter to get it indexed faster if you feel that is the need.
The hash tag is showing you're using Ajax which is most likely causing this issue. Is there a reason you created this # tag link?
Was it part of analytics this most likely has everything to do with your analytics tracking you may want to look at that prior to changing URLs.
Take a look at your site using this tool it will show you essentially what Google bot is able to see.
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/test.php
The site code I'm looking at is in need of optimization also the twitter button that should appear at the bottom is not rendering correctly in Safari just so you know.
I can recommend a high-quality developer if you need one.
Hope this helps,
Thomas
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