Thanks for the reply. I won't live long enough to learn all the stuff
you suggest. :-(
I sorta know HTML. If it really takes knowledge about ALL that to
produce and maintain a few simple websites, then I will have to yank
them down and get on with the rest of my life!
I indeed may have a virus. I have been trying to get Kaspersky to help
in that regard. After 2 weeks, they finally responded yesterday. Their
advice seems to suggest that my problems are NOT virus or malware
related, but some incompatability between KAV and IE7. Strange that it
just appeared...but not so strange that everyone wants to blame some
other guy. :-(
Do you have any suggestions about how to find a qualified computer
tech? Can the computer tech be remote from my keyboard? I don't live
in a heavily populated area...my neighbors think I AM a computer tech,
which describes how backward the gene pool is around these parts. ;-)
> Chuxter, it sounds like your computer and the server you host your
> sites on are infected with malware of some type. Since there really
> isn't a simple way to explain these issues to you and how to resolve
> them, I suggest you hire a computer tech to help you to resolve the
> security related problems and to help prevent them from happening in
> the future. They are serious issues.
> In the meantime, I suggest you study up on HTML, CSS, Apache HTTP
> Server Documentation, .htaccess configuration, W3C document standards
> and validation, and web accessibility. You have a lot of work ahead of
> you.
> Don't take this advice the wrong way, I'm not talking down to you- I'm
> just trying to steer you in the right direction. Sitemaps are the
> least of your concerns right now.
> On Aug 3, 9:52 pm, chuxter wrote:
> > Please excuse my stupidity! I'm new here and don't understand about
> > 90% of what is going on. Recently (since approx. 1 month ago?), I have
> > been getting LOTS of strange Google-based "signals" that something is
> > wrong. Like when I launch IE7, my sites fail with 404 errors about 30%
> > of the time. I see Google messages when this happens: "...your query
> > looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware
> > application..." Previously, I have never seen these kinda things.
> > Today I did a Google search and it returned one of my sites with a
> > disturbing annotation: "This site may harm your computer." as a link
> > tohttp://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py? > > answer=45449&topic=360&hl=en&sa=X&oi=malwarewarninglink&resnum=6&ct=help.
> > This page says: "We're sorry, but the information you've requested
> > cannot be found." Duh!
> > Do your lawyers think such unwarranted messages are liability
> > exposures for your company? ;-)
> > OK, I figured out that I needed to use your "webmaster tools" and
> > tried both ways to get my site to "Verify". Nada. Apparently w/o being
> > verified, I can't submit a sitemap?
> > What the @#$%? I used to like Google, but this leaves a bitter tase in
> > my mouth...
> > Can anyone please tell a simple man what he's supposed to do??? In a
> > simple and comprehendable way???
> > TIA
> > On Jul 30, 10:13 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > > Hi everyone!
> > > It's come to our attention that some URLs are listed as 404s for some
> > > sites in Webmaster Tools even though they were apparently crawled
> > > correctly. In general, even if we were not able to crawl some URLs
> > > correctly once or twice, this should not affect a site's crawling,
> > > indexing or ranking in our search engine.
> > > We're currently analyzing the situation and will give you more
> > > information as soon as we have it.
> > > Thanks for using Webmaster Tools and thank you for your ongoing
> > > feedback!
My site homepage http://store.ashridgetrees.co.uk returned a 404
according to Googlewebmaster Tools Dashboard on 1st August. This is
not the first time thi shas happened in the last 8 weeks or so.
Our server log for 1st August shows 3 404's, two for erroneous
addresses and one for what looks like a Google test to make sure we do
not always return 200's. There are three hits shown on our homepage,
all of which were returned as a 200.
Can anyone shed any light on why this might have happened?
> > Has there been any update on this yet? My sitewww.bestinthecountry.co.uk > > has around 150 of my old html pages returning404errors in webmaster
> > tools when the pages are correctly 301 redirected to my new aspx
> > pages.
> In this case the site URL is insufficient. Can we have some sample
> full URLs and the date that Webmaster Tools last reported a404on
> each?
> Thanks for the reply. I won't live long enough to learn all the stuff
> you suggest. :-(
> I sorta know HTML. If it really takes knowledge about ALL that to
> produce and maintain a few simple websites, then I will have to yank
> them down and get on with the rest of my life!
There is a learning curve to all this stuff but it is worth the
effort. I wouldn't advise you to quit the game. Just take the game
more seriously. :)
> Do you have any suggestions about how to find a qualified computer
> tech? Can the computer tech be remote from my keyboard? I don't live
> in a heavily populated area...my neighbors think I AM a computer tech,
> which describes how backward the gene pool is around these parts. ;-)
You'll probably need to make a trip into a bigger city to have the
work done right. Unfortunately, I don't live in TX so I can't
recommend anybody.
> I indeed may have a virus. I have been trying to get Kaspersky to help
> in that regard. After 2 weeks, they finally responded yesterday. Their
> advice seems to suggest that my problems are NOT virus or malware
> related, but some incompatability between KAV and IE7. Strange that it
> just appeared...but not so strange that everyone wants to blame some
> other guy. :-(
As you can see from the report, it's a fairly serious problem that
needs to be addressed ASAP. The site is infecting your visitors
computers. They in turn are likely spreading it to others. You have a
responsibility as the webmaster and owner of that site to resolve this
problem as quickly as possible.
On the bright side, your other domain doesn't seem to be infected.
However, Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days so
it's possible that it might now be.
Now for the million dollar question. Is your computer in some way
responsible for this infection or was your server compromised through
some sort of script or server exploit? Since Google is giving you
warnings while you conduct searches, I'm inclined to believe your
computer is compromised in some fashion and possibly contributed to
that site becoming infected.
The passwords and login details for the sites you visit should be
assumed to be compromised. If I were you, I wouldn't be doing any kind
of sensitive transactions (e.g. online banking, purchases, etc) until
you have your computer checked out.
Finally, check with your host and see if they will help you remove the
malware from the server.
> Thanks for the reply. I won't live long enough to learn all the stuff
> you suggest. :-(
> I sorta know HTML. If it really takes knowledge about ALL that to
> produce and maintain a few simple websites, then I will have to yank
> them down and get on with the rest of my life!
> I indeed may have a virus. I have been trying to get Kaspersky to help
> in that regard. After 2 weeks, they finally responded yesterday. Their
> advice seems to suggest that my problems are NOT virus or malware
> related, but some incompatability between KAV and IE7. Strange that it
> just appeared...but not so strange that everyone wants to blame some
> other guy. :-(
> Do you have any suggestions about how to find a qualified computer
> tech? Can the computer tech be remote from my keyboard? I don't live
> in a heavily populated area...my neighbors think I AM a computer tech,
> which describes how backward the gene pool is around these parts. ;-)
> On Aug 6, 2:18 pm, Key_Master wrote:
> > Chuxter, it sounds like your computer and the server you host your
> > sites on are infected with malware of some type. Since there really
> > isn't a simple way to explain these issues to you and how to resolve
> > them, I suggest you hire a computer tech to help you to resolve the
> > security related problems and to help prevent them from happening in
> > the future. They are serious issues.
> > In the meantime, I suggest you study up on HTML, CSS, Apache HTTP
> > Server Documentation, .htaccess configuration, W3C document standards
> > and validation, and web accessibility. You have a lot of work ahead of
> > you.
> > Don't take this advice the wrong way, I'm not talking down to you- I'm
> > just trying to steer you in the right direction. Sitemaps are the
> > least of your concerns right now.
> > On Aug 3, 9:52 pm, chuxter wrote:
> > > Please excuse my stupidity! I'm new here and don't understand about
> > > 90% of what is going on. Recently (since approx. 1 month ago?), I have
> > > been getting LOTS of strange Google-based "signals" that something is
> > > wrong. Like when I launch IE7, my sites fail with 404 errors about 30%
> > > of the time. I see Google messages when this happens: "...your query
> > > looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware
> > > application..." Previously, I have never seen these kinda things.
> > > Today I did a Google search and it returned one of my sites with a
> > > disturbing annotation: "This site may harm your computer." as a link
> > > tohttp://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py? > > > answer=45449&topic=360&hl=en&sa=X&oi=malwarewarninglink&resnum=6&ct=help.
> > > This page says: "We're sorry, but the information you've requested
> > > cannot be found." Duh!
> > > Do your lawyers think such unwarranted messages are liability
> > > exposures for your company? ;-)
> > > OK, I figured out that I needed to use your "webmaster tools" and
> > > tried both ways to get my site to "Verify". Nada. Apparently w/o being
> > > verified, I can't submit a sitemap?
> > > What the @#$%? I used to like Google, but this leaves a bitter tase in
> > > my mouth...
> > > Can anyone please tell a simple man what he's supposed to do??? In a
> > > simple and comprehendable way???
> > > TIA
> > > On Jul 30, 10:13 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone!
> > > > It's come to our attention that some URLs are listed as 404s for some
> > > > sites in Webmaster Tools even though they were apparently crawled
> > > > correctly. In general, even if we were not able to crawl some URLs
> > > > correctly once or twice, this should not affect a site's crawling,
> > > > indexing or ranking in our search engine.
> > > > We're currently analyzing the situation and will give you more
> > > > information as soon as we have it.
> > > > Thanks for using Webmaster Tools and thank you for your ongoing
> > > > feedback!
> > Thanks for the reply. I won't live long enough to learn all the stuff
> > you suggest. :-(
> > I sorta know HTML. If it really takes knowledge about ALL that to
> > produce and maintain a few simple websites, then I will have to yank
> > them down and get on with the rest of my life!
> There is a learning curve to all this stuff but it is worth the
> effort. I wouldn't advise you to quit the game. Just take the game
> more seriously. :)
> > Do you have any suggestions about how to find a qualified computer
> > tech? Can the computer tech be remote from my keyboard? I don't live
> > in a heavily populated area...my neighbors think I AM a computer tech,
> > which describes how backward the gene pool is around these parts. ;-)
> You'll probably need to make a trip into a bigger city to have the
> work done right. Unfortunately, I don't live in TX so I can't
> recommend anybody.
> > I indeed may have a virus. I have been trying to get Kaspersky to help
> > in that regard. After 2 weeks, they finally responded yesterday. Their
> > advice seems to suggest that my problems are NOT virus or malware
> > related, but some incompatability between KAV and IE7. Strange that it
> > just appeared...but not so strange that everyone wants to blame some
> > other guy. :-(
> As you can see from the report, it's a fairly serious problem that
> needs to be addressed ASAP. The site is infecting your visitors
> computers. They in turn are likely spreading it to others. You have a
> responsibility as the webmaster and owner of that site to resolve this
> problem as quickly as possible.
> On the bright side, your other domain doesn't seem to be infected.
> However, Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days so
> it's possible that it might now be.
> Now for the million dollar question. Is your computer in some way
> responsible for this infection or was your server compromised through
> some sort of script or server exploit? Since Google is giving you
> warnings while you conduct searches, I'm inclined to believe your
> computer is compromised in some fashion and possibly contributed to
> that site becoming infected.
> The passwords and login details for the sites you visit should be
> assumed to be compromised. If I were you, I wouldn't be doing any kind
> of sensitive transactions (e.g. online banking, purchases, etc) until
> you have your computer checked out.
> Finally, check with your host and see if they will help you remove the
> malware from the server.
> Hope this is of help.
> On Aug 7, 8:35 am, chuxter wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply. I won't live long enough to learn all the stuff
> > you suggest. :-(
> > I sorta know HTML. If it really takes knowledge about ALL that to
> > produce and maintain a few simple websites, then I will have to yank
> > them down and get on with the rest of my life!
> > I indeed may have a virus. I have been trying to get Kaspersky to help
> > in that regard. After 2 weeks, they finally responded yesterday. Their
> > advice seems to suggest that my problems are NOT virus or malware
> > related, but some incompatability between KAV and IE7. Strange that it
> > just appeared...but not so strange that everyone wants to blame some
> > other guy. :-(
> > Do you have any suggestions about how to find a qualified computer
> > tech? Can the computer tech be remote from my keyboard? I don't live
> > in a heavily populated area...my neighbors think I AM a computer tech,
> > which describes how backward the gene pool is around these parts. ;-)
> > On Aug 6, 2:18 pm, Key_Master wrote:
> > > Chuxter, it sounds like your computer and the server you host your
> > > sites on are infected with malware of some type. Since there really
> > > isn't a simple way to explain these issues to you and how to resolve
> > > them, I suggest you hire a computer tech to help you to resolve the
> > > security related problems and to help prevent them from happening in
> > > the future. They are serious issues.
> > > In the meantime, I suggest you study up on HTML, CSS, Apache HTTP
> > > Server Documentation, .htaccess configuration, W3C document standards
> > > and validation, and web accessibility. You have a lot of work ahead of
> > > you.
> > > Don't take this advice the wrong way, I'm not talking down to you- I'm
> > > just trying to steer you in the right direction. Sitemaps are the
> > > least of your concerns right now.
> > > On Aug 3, 9:52 pm, chuxter wrote:
> > > > Please excuse my stupidity! I'm new here and don't understand about
> > > > 90% of what is going on. Recently (since approx. 1 month ago?), I have
> > > > been getting LOTS of strange Google-based "signals" that something is
> > > > wrong. Like when I launch IE7, my sites fail with 404 errors about 30%
> > > > of the time. I see Google messages when this happens: "...your query
> > > > looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware
> > > > application..." Previously, I have never seen these kinda things.
> > > > Today I did a Google search and it returned one of my sites with a
> > > > disturbing annotation: "This site may harm your computer." as a link
> > > > tohttp://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py? > > > > answer=45449&topic=360&hl=en&sa=X&oi=malwarewarninglink&resnum=6&ct=help.
> > > > This page says: "We're sorry, but the information you've requested
> > > > cannot be found." Duh!
> > > > Do your lawyers think such unwarranted messages are liability
> > > > exposures for your company? ;-)
> > > > OK, I figured out that I needed to use your "webmaster tools" and
> > > > tried both ways to get my site to "Verify". Nada. Apparently w/o being
> > > > verified, I can't submit a sitemap?
> > > > What the @#$%? I used to like Google, but this leaves a bitter tase in
> > > > my mouth...
> > > > Can anyone please tell a simple man what he's supposed to do??? In a
> > > > simple and comprehendable way???
> > > > TIA
> > > > On Jul 30, 10:13 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > > > > Hi everyone!
> > > > > It's come to our attention that some URLs are listed as 404s for some
> > > > > sites in Webmaster Tools even though they were apparently crawled
> > > > > correctly. In general, even if we were not able to crawl some URLs
> > > > > correctly once or twice, this should not affect a site's crawling,
> > > > > indexing or ranking in our search engine.
> > > > > We're currently analyzing the situation and will give you more
> > > > > information as soon as we have it.
> > > > > Thanks for using Webmaster Tools and thank you for your ongoing
> > > > > feedback!
I just moved from HTML to Joomla/PHP and I'm getting 9,500 404
errors. Half are 404 as I've moved the pages and they actually don't
exist, but the other half are clearly valid URL's. I'm using SEF
URL's and someone told me that's the reason. I don't understand that
as the URL by definition should be Search Engine Friendly (SEF).
If all my pages are coming up as 404 then I will lose my page rank on
all of them right?
> I just moved from HTML to Joomla/PHP and I'm getting 9,500 404
> errors. Half are 404 as I've moved the pages and they actually don't
> exist, but the other half are clearly valid URL's. I'm using SEF
> URL's and someone told me that's the reason. I don't understand that
> as the URL by definition should be Search Engine Friendly (SEF).
> If all my pages are coming up as 404 then I will lose my page rank on
> all of them right?
> Whats' the URL? There may be problems with server response that are
> specific to your site, nothing to do with any Google oddity.
> On Aug 9, 2:01 pm, mmenigma wrote:
> > My GWT is showing all page of my site as 404.
> > I just moved from HTML to Joomla/PHP and I'm getting 9,500 404
> > errors. Half are 404 as I've moved the pages and they actually don't
> > exist, but the other half are clearly valid URL's. I'm using SEF
> > URL's and someone told me that's the reason. I don't understand that
> > as the URL by definition should be Search Engine Friendly (SEF).
> > If all my pages are coming up as 404 then I will lose my page rank on
> > all of them right?
Im not sure what is going on with my Google site map. I just starting
using GoDaddy for my new cutrateseo site and I think they submitted my
Google site map XML file wrong because in the Webmaster tools for my
sitemap I get nothing but errors.
The site im still working on is www.cutrateseo.com I also cannot
find it in Google search results! Even if I put in the full URL! Any
ideas?
> It's come to our attention that some URLs are listed as 404s for some
> sites in Webmaster Tools even though they were apparently crawled
> correctly. In general, even if we were not able to crawl some URLs
> correctly once or twice, this should not affect a site's crawling,
> indexing or ranking in our search engine.
> We're currently analyzing the situation and will give you more
> information as soon as we have it.
> Thanks for using Webmaster Tools and thank you for your ongoing
> feedback!
Line 28, Column 7: end tag for element "HEAD" which is not open.
</head>✉
Line 30, Column 24: document type does not allow element "BODY" here.
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">✉
With thsi situation the robot will never find the link to the actual
site.
Dead end.
So this explains why there's no indexing.
Moving on to your sitemap.
The sitemap is badly served with a BOM (byte watermark). That's
invisible leadign garbage. So invalid.
Bu assuming it were OK ....
You have a frequency set to hourly? But last mod date has no time
part?
You want anybody to believe your pages change hourly? For real?
There are probably many other problems but thsi shoudl get you
started.
And if you want my honest opinion, the flash is most annoying, as
there's no way to turn off the audio even. It's also very unnecessary.
It adds nothing but an extra click to find the actual homepage whic
might have informatiton in addition to more code erros:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cutrates...
> Im not sure what is going on with my Google site map. I just starting
> using GoDaddy for my new cutrateseo site and I think they submitted my
> Google site map XML file wrong because in the Webmaster tools for my
> sitemap I get nothing but errors.
> The site im still working on iswww.cutrateseo.com I also cannot
> find it in Google search results! Even if I put in the full URL! Any
> ideas?
> Thanks, Sean
> On Jul 30, 8:13 am, JohnMu wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > It's come to our attention that some URLs are listed as 404s for some
> > sites in Webmaster Tools even though they were apparently crawled
> > correctly. In general, even if we were not able to crawl some URLs
> > correctly once or twice, this should not affect a site's crawling,
> > indexing or ranking in our search engine.
> > We're currently analyzing the situation and will give you more
> > information as soon as we have it.
> > Thanks for using Webmaster Tools and thank you for your ongoing
> > feedback!
> That's the most fascinating site I've seen this year.
> And I've seen a few.
> It needs some tidying up - it doesn't scale perfectly to my 1280x1024
> display, and the HTML is not properly terminated. But the approach is
> real fun. I don't find the graphic visually that intuitive but it
> seemed to get most things right.
> I commend it to my colleagues for a good sniff.
> I'm not sure what the problem is, but there's an unquantifiable
> variable inhttp://www.intodns.com/1derful.info- see the "i" notes #2
> and #4. It's possible something in that loop is causing long enough
> delays to trigger Google's 'synthetic' 404s.
Hi John!
This may have nothing to do with the problem I am
presently encountering, but I think it appropriate to inform you about
this.
Since about a week I find Google Bot seeking the links derived from my
Site Map, without the html (htm) file extension, and subsequently
encountering the 404 response!
I did not change anything much, least of all the reference to the XML-
Schema, shown below:
All I did was remove two errors in the site map, which I subsequently
validated.
My site log now displays Google Bot encountering for most of my pages
the 404 response code. However there are a few exceptions! Some of
them are from an old and discarded Site Map, which seems logical,
assuming there was something wrong with the XML-Schema or my present
Site Map. But some new links present it my current Site Map do have
the appropriate html extension and receive a positive 200 response
code. Same applies to all the redirects, they receive positive 301
response code and show the file extension!
> Hi John!
> This may have nothing to do with the problem I am
> presently encountering, but I think it appropriate to inform you about
> this.
> Since about a week I find Google Bot seeking the links derived from my
> Site Map, without the html (htm) file extension, and subsequently
> encountering the 404 response!
> I did not change anything much, least of all the reference to the XML-
> Schema, shown below:
> All I did was remove two errors in the site map, which I subsequently
> validated.
> My site log now displays Google Bot encountering for most of my pages
> the 404 response code. However there are a few exceptions! Some of
> them are from an old and discarded Site Map, which seems logical,
> assuming there was something wrong with the XML-Schema or my present
> Site Map. But some new links present it my current Site Map do have
> the appropriate html extension and receive a positive 200 response
> code. Same applies to all the redirects, they receive positive 301
> response code and show the file extension!
> Hi John!
> This may have nothing to do with the problem I am
> presently encountering, but I think it appropriate to inform you about
> this.
> Since about a week I find Google Bot seeking the links derived from my
> Site Map, without the html (htm) file extension, and subsequently
> encountering the 404 response!
> I did not change anything much, least of all the reference to the XML-
> Schema, shown below:
> All I did was remove two errors in the site map, which I subsequently
> validated.
> My site log now displays Google Bot encountering for most of my pages
> the 404 response code. However there are a few exceptions! Some of
> them are from an old and discarded Site Map, which seems logical,
> assuming there was something wrong with the XML-Schema or my present
> Site Map. But some new links present it my current Site Map do have
> the appropriate html extension and receive a positive 200 response
> code. Same applies to all the redirects, they receive positive 301
> response code and show the file extension!
It looks like this issue should be cleared up by now. If you continue
to spot incorrect 404 errors in your Webmaster Tools (with a recent
date), it would be great if you could post the details here.
Thanks for your patience!
John
PS Thanks, Webado, for helping with the real 404 issues!
First of many thanks for looking it up.
I am aware of the many broken links, of some files I have changed and
not consistently implemented redirects for them. And there are a few
that are wrong and I have just putt off correcting them, as I am going
to amend some of them anyway.
As for my robots file. Thanks for pointing out the error. However I
have not changed it since a year or more!
This phenomena of 404 is however brand new!
It was not there before. As I mentioned, it can only have to do with
my Site Map (which I did indeed change in a absolutely minor way) or
the XML Google Schema (changed, amended? Updated?) or my Site is
somehow compromised. I honestly do not remember ever having put
anything in robots file related to Google!?
Or, as some web masters have pointed out, something temporary and
without any real dire consequences.
> > Hi John!
> > This may have nothing to do with the problem I am
> > presently encountering, but I think it appropriate to inform you about
> > this.
> > Since about a week I find Google Bot seeking the links derived from my
> > Site Map, without the html (htm) file extension, and subsequently
> > encountering the404response!
> > I did not change anything much, least of all the reference to the XML-
> > Schema, shown below:
> > All I did was remove two errors in the site map, which I subsequently
> > validated.
> > My site log now displays Google Bot encountering for most of my pages
> > the404response code. However there are a few exceptions! Some of
> > them are from an old and discarded Site Map, which seems logical,
> > assuming there was something wrong with the XML-Schema or my present
> > Site Map. But some new links present it my current Site Map do have
> > the appropriate html extension and receive a positive 200 response
> > code. Same applies to all the redirects, they receive positive 301
> > response code and show the file extension!
I must add, that my site has improved of late. The last time I ran (a
few months ago) Link Sleuth on my Site, I had over 70 broken links.
You got 33. I am sure the problem is somewhere else. I really do see
the missing file extension, in all my logs since this week.
And it is going on like that... and these are the very links that get
404.
> > Hi John!
> > This may have nothing to do with the problem I am
> > presently encountering, but I think it appropriate to inform you about
> > this.
> > Since about a week I find Google Bot seeking the links derived from my
> > Site Map, without the html (htm) file extension, and subsequently
> > encountering the 404 response!
> > I did not change anything much, least of all the reference to the XML-
> > Schema, shown below:
> > All I did was remove two errors in the site map, which I subsequently
> > validated.
> > My site log now displays Google Bot encountering for most of my pages
> > the 404 response code. However there are a few exceptions! Some of
> > them are from an old and discarded Site Map, which seems logical,
> > assuming there was something wrong with the XML-Schema or my present
> > Site Map. But some new links present it my current Site Map do have
> > the appropriate html extension and receive a positive 200 response
> > code. Same applies to all the redirects, they receive positive 301
> > response code and show the file extension!
Hi John!
It is good to know, that the errors listed in Web Master tools do not
effect the crawling. So in a way I am not patiently waiting for you
to fix it. It does not really bother me now. I too can relax now,
instead of seeking some quaint explanations or breaking my head over
it. Thanks a lot for your information. Appreciate it.
And now you say that the issue is cleared up, which I assume would be
evident only after the next crawl, which means the at present listed
error codes in Webmaster Tools will persist for a while?
I hope so, although I still see in my logs, the error codes. This is
not important, as long as the pages are crawled correctly, but
nevertheless I strongly suspect that the Webmaster Tools will reflect
this yet once again by the next crawl.
> It looks like this issue should be cleared up by now. If you continue
> to spot incorrect404errors in your Webmaster Tools (with a recent
> date), it would be great if you could post the details here.
> Thanks for your patience!
> John
> PS Thanks, Webado, for helping with the real404issues!
> It looks like this issue should be cleared up by now. If you continue
> to spot incorrect 404 errors in your Webmaster Tools (with a recent
> date), it would be great if you could post the details here.
> Thanks for your patience!
> John
> PS Thanks, Webado, for helping with the real 404 issues!
Hi Luc
It does look like we saw 404 errors for those URLs (at least the ones
that I checked), but it looks like we can see the content properly
now. I assume that this was just a temporary fluke, in which case
things should return to normal over time.
One page on my site: <http://www.orselli.net/sources.htm> keeps
generating 404 errors in my Webmaster's Tools even though the page is
active and my sitemap lists the page correctly and is validated.
Just to tell you that everything is fine now. I didn't got any new 404
errors past the 18th of August and my pages in the Google Index are
growing up again (16% of them in the index today) and with nearly (a
little less) the same ranking than 3 months ago (eg position 3 when it
was 2 on the first page of results)
> Hi Luc
> It does look like we saw 404 errors for those URLs (at least the ones
> that I checked), but it looks like we can see the content properly
> now. I assume that this was just a temporary fluke, in which case
> things should return to normal over time.
The error dates from July 23. Is there a way for me to manually clear
those errors, or will they just eventually disappear from my
Webmaster's Tools reports?
I am having similar problems here as well. I have a slew of 404
errors, in fact i think all the pages in my blog are returning as 404
errors, except the site main page <a href="http://www.selophane.com/ blog">http://www.selophane.com/blog</a>.
In addition, my site maps keep returning 404 errors for pages that
exist. If I try to access them in Lynx I get a 404 error and then it
forwards onto the real page.
