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“404. That’s an error.” when viewing from Google cache
My site is getting 404. That’s an error. message when I click on cached from Google search results.
This is the error message from Google:
That’s an error.
The requested URL ...
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Why are URLs with my domain name at the end showing up in analytics?
I have a multi-language WordPress site that has been live since the last 3 months and today when I checked Analytics, I saw a lot of weird URLs:
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What Google will do while switching from 301/404 to 200?
Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages:
articles.php?page=18
What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page?
articles.php?page=21 (page 21 is out of ...
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Site returning 404 header to google, not sure why
A Drupal site that works fine for regular users returns a 404 not found error when I try to use the W3C validator on it; it is also not being indexed by google at all (which is the main issue but I ...
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Weird 404 crawl errors in Google webmaster tools
If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful! We're getting strange domains coming up in Google webmaster tools - they seem to be breeding. When I look where the links are coming from, it's either:
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Thousands of 404 errors in Google Webmaster Tools
Because of a former error in our ASP.Net application, created by my predecessor and undiscovered for a long time, thousands of wrong URLs where created dynamically. The normal user did not notice it, ...
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Can a site recover by itself after dropping google page rank for 404 errors?
Recently redid a website and changed the directory / URL structure. I did some .htaccess redirects for the main landing pages - however when reviewing web master tools received 404 errors for the rest ...
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4answers
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404 page needs meta description (just to make Google happier)?
I'm fixing some minor things on the 404 page for all my websites.
My punctiliousness makes me unable to sleep well unless I get an answer to this question. :)
Does a 404 page need a meta description ...
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Why can't GoogleBot forget a 404 File Does Not Exist?
For two months now, googlebot is trying to get a file which does not exist anymore. This is just one example out of many: I had renamed the file to a better name and removed the old file. Now, why ...
