What Is This 404 error?

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avijit mondal

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Google webmaster is showing these error. What is these? How to get rid from it?
 
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avijit mondal said:
Please check my image.. [Fb%20url], [Twitter%20url], [Google%20url], [Pinterest%20url], Google is adding these at the end of every url and showing error.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Please elaborate a bit more. Maybe share a screenshot? The image in your first post doesn't show.
 
The Error 404 "Page not found" is the error page displayed whenever someone asks for a page that’s simply not available on your site. The reason for this is that there may be a link on your site that was wrong or the page might have been recently removed from the site. As there is no web page to display, the web server sends a page that simply says "404 Page not found".
 
404 Error, Normally occur with following reasons:
  • The URL or its content was either deleted or moved (without adjusting any internal links accordingly)
  • The URL was written incorrectly. linked incorrectly, or typed into the browser incorrectly
  • The server responsible for the website is not running or the connection is broken
  • The requested domain name can’t be converted to an IP by the domain name system (DNS)
  • The entered domain name doesn’t exist
 
There are some very different schools of thought out there regarding 404 error code pages. Some SEOs recommend:

  • Never allowing them - 301'ing every error page back to the home page or an internal category level page to preserve the maximum amount of link juice (in case someone links to a broken URL)
  • Letting any erroneous/mistyped URL 404.
  • Something in between - 301 some kinds of 404 pages and not others.
I'm generally in this last group. I think there are times when it pays dividends to let a URL 404, both for accessibility and search engine reasons. I also don't think it's intuitive or semantically accurate to 301 every 404 page on the site - it certainly pays to build great custom 404s (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/29/404-error-pages-one-more-time/), but to simply have your homepage appear when a URL is mistyped or a link breaks doesn't send the right message to users or search engines.

When faced with 404s, my thinking is that unless the page:

A) Receives important links to it from external sources (http://www.google.com/webmasters is http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/)
B) Is receiving a substantive quantity of visitor traffic
and/or C) Has an obvious URL that visitors/links intended to reach

It's OK to let it 404.

Recently, though, https://moz.com/team/lindsay and I were faced with a tough call on a consulting project. The client has a site that receives a ton of search queries, many of which map to their category and subcategory level pages (which are more landing pages than search query pages, but also serve to address the search keywords). The client also has a number of search pages that have no content (either because they're for mis-typed, nonsense or mis-spelled searches or because they simply don't have content for those terms). Some of these pages earn links, some get a moderate amount of traffic and up until recently, they've essentially existed as error pages that resolve with a 200 code.

What to do?

Our conundrum contained a few critical elements. We don't want the search engines wasting bandwidth crawling and indexing junk pages (especially since the site is monstrous and needs that crawl/index power to flow to the right sections). We also don't want users to have a bad experience and while the error pages effectively communicate the right message (there's no results for this query), semantically the pages should really 404. Finally, of course, we don't want to waste any of that precious link juice that's flowing to some of them.

The solution turned out to be a compromise - we'd 404 the pages, but keep track of those that earned links and any substantive level of traffic and try to build better experiences for those pages (sometimes a 301 to a sub-category page, sometimes to a results listing and sometimes we'll actually add content to those pages and make them resolve). We hope that this lets us have our cake and eat it, too.
 
nicvpn.com said:
There are some very different schools of thought out there regarding 404 error code pages. Some SEOs recommend:

  • Never allowing them - 301'ing every error page back to the home page or an internal category level page to preserve the maximum amount of link juice (in case someone links to a broken URL)
  • Letting any erroneous/mistyped URL 404.
  • Something in between - 301 some kinds of 404 pages and not others.
I'm generally in this last group. I think there are times when it pays dividends to let a URL 404, both for accessibility and search engine reasons. I also don't think it's intuitive or semantically accurate to 301 every 404 page on the site - it certainly pays to build great custom 404s (good piece with examples on that here), but to simply have your homepage appear when a URL is mistyped or a link breaks doesn't send the right message to users or search engines.

When faced with 404s, my thinking is that unless the page:

A) Receives important links to it from external sources (Google Webmaster Tools is great for this)
B) Is receiving a substantive quantity of visitor traffic
and/or C) Has an obvious URL that visitors/links intended to reach

It's OK to let it 404.

Recently, though, Lindsay and I were faced with a tough call on a consulting project. The client has a site that receives a ton of search queries, many of which map to their category and subcategory level pages (which are more landing pages than search query pages, but also serve to address the search keywords). The client also has a number of search pages that have no content (either because they're for mis-typed, nonsense or mis-spelled searches or because they simply don't have content for those terms). Some of these pages earn links, some get a moderate amount of traffic and up until recently, they've essentially existed as error pages that resolve with a 200 code.

What to do?

Our conundrum contained a few critical elements. We don't want the search engines wasting bandwidth crawling and indexing junk pages (especially since the site is monstrous and needs that crawl/index power to flow to the right sections). We also don't want users to have a bad experience and while the error pages effectively communicate the right message (there's no results for this query), semantically the pages should really 404. Finally, of course, we don't want to waste any of that precious link juice that's flowing to some of them.

The solution turned out to be a compromise - we'd 404 the pages, but keep track of those that earned links and any substantive level of traffic and try to build better experiences for those pages (sometimes a 301 to a sub-category page, sometimes to a results listing and sometimes we'll actually add content to those pages and make them resolve). We hope that this lets us have our cake and eat it, too.
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Instead of posting a wall of text that you didn't even write yourself, just paste the link you copied it from.
https://moz.com/blog/are-404-pages-always-bad-for-seo
 
avijit mondal said:
Please check my image.. [Fb%20url], [Twitter%20url], [Google%20url], [Pinterest%20url], Google is adding these at the end of every url and showing error.
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It looks like some RSS plugin or your CMS is generating those links and they're being added to your sitemap but when Google visits the links, your site throws a 404 error.

You can redirect the URLs. Or ask Google to remove those URLs from their index. And make sure that those URLs are not in your sitemap anymore.
 
bk071 said:
It looks like some RSS plugin or your CMS is generating those links and they're being added to your sitemap but when Google visits the links, your site throws a 404 error.

You can redirect the URLs. Or ask Google to remove those URLs from their index. And make sure that those URLs are not in your sitemap anymore.
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I am using wordpress and yoast plugin. Any of them is creating these automatically.
 
nicvpn.com said:
The Error 404 "Page not found" is the error page displayed whenever someone asks for a page that’s simply not available on your site. The reason for this is that there may be a link on your site that was wrong or the page might have been recently removed from the site. As there is no web page to display, the web server sends a page that simply says "404 Page not found".
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actually i did not fetch this type of 404 problem before.
 
nicvpn.com said:
you can using 301 for redirect these to the best pages...
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Thats not the problem, when I am posting anything then these type of url is automatically generated. I need to stop this.
 
is your wp plugin theme null?

sounds like a mucked up plugin or theme...

just thinking maybe you wp broke and not writting to the htacces correctly that can cause 404 in theory

somewere on your setup the links are not being written correctly and causing a 404 error

just guessing
 
redarrow said:
is your wp plugin theme null?

sounds like a mucked up plugin or theme...

just thinking maybe you wp broke and not writting to the htacces correctly that can cause 404 in theory

somewere on your setup the links are not being written correctly and causing a 404 error

just guessing
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No I am using a free wordpress theme frontier. I am thinking of wrong yoast setup.
 
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