Thousands of 404's showing up from Wordpress Blog!?!?
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Hey guys,
Have recently seen thousands of 404 errors thrown up from my wordpress blog in Google Search Console. These are URL's trying to link (i'm not sure where from) to other parts of my site, but they are not relative to the site root... infact they are a mix of random folders/subfolders and pages on my site.
E.g:
This is a link to a picture on the blog:
And the rest of it is finding it's own way there!
Any ideas? This is Wordpress by the way.
Cheers, Paul.
p.s. I got no help from the Wordpress community so am posting here!
p.p.s I forgot to mention that MOZ is reporting these issues too, but running Screaming Frog does NOT show any 404's at all on my site...
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PM me link to blog please.
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Ok cool, thanks, will give that a go.
Cheers, Paul.
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Well, if they are actually fixed, you can do "fetch as Google" for the whole domain.
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Thanks Dmitrii, I've looked where the links came from and they originate from another 404'd page.
I've fixed the htaccess file now and mark all the 404's as fixed... but i'm assuming that Google will try and re-crawl the links and find the 404's again.... endless circle.
Is there a way of permanently deleting all 2,666 links from Google's memory!?
Cheers, Paul.
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Hi there.
Seems to be weird rewrite rules? or mistake in path finding in template builder?
Usually, you can track where those links are coming from in MOZ or GWT.
Post real urls, it will be easier to analyze.
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Think I've figured it out... had a problem with the Wordpress htaccess file and for each post/page/sitemap etc. it was showing a non-css'd version of my main website homepage instead of that post etc.
Googlebot has obviously gone to the non-css version of my homepage but at the "correct" blog post address, then found document-relative links that it then can't follow...
I'll go through and mark all 404's as fixed and hope they aren't re-crawled. In the event that they are, what can I do to get rid of them as there are 2,666 404's in my Google Search Console and I have seen a drop in rankings...
Cheers, Paul.
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