Sorry no one had the chance to get back to you sooner.
Given from what I see you have mostly static pages
where none of then have a suffix of &usg=[anything]
leads me to believe these are external links to your site.
Google tries crawling them and since that URL does not
exist on your site, your server properly gives the 404 response.
That's a good thing.
Since external links to your site are largely out of your
control there is little you can do (but you can try).
Google understands this does not hold you responsible.
GWMT is just kindly informing you there are links to your
site that get 404 errors so if it is something under your control
you can take steps to rectify the issue.
As it seems your site does not generate these links,
I scanned it with Xenu, I wouldn't be concerned.
If you want you could 301 redirect these links to the
most relevant or appropriate page on your site but that
may be a lot of work with little or no benefit.
It's likely these links are coming from scraper sites
which usually disappear over time.
On another note you do have broken links on
your site that should be addressed not just for Google
but for the benefit of your visitors.
They are too numerous to list here but I do
have the report saved.
Try running something like Xenu Link Sleuth to see them.
That XLS utility is available as a free download, just Google it!
Hope that helps,
Abracadabra
On Sep 26, 5:29 am, Glaughing wrote:
> Sorry no one had the chance to get back to you sooner.
> Given from what I see you have mostly static pages
> where none of then have a suffix of &usg=[anything]
> leads me to believe these are external links to your site.
> Google tries crawling them and since that URL does not
> exist on your site, your server properly gives the 404 response.
> That's a good thing.
> Since external links to your site are largely out of your
> control there is little you can do (but you can try).
> Google understands this does not hold you responsible.
> GWMT is just kindly informing you there are links to your
> site that get 404 errors so if it is something under your control
> you can take steps to rectify the issue.
> As it seems your site does not generate these links,
> I scanned it with Xenu, I wouldn't be concerned.
> If you want you could 301 redirect these links to the
> most relevant or appropriate page on your site but that
> may be a lot of work with little or no benefit.
> It's likely these links are coming from scraper sites
> which usually disappear over time.
> On another note you do have broken links on
> your site that should be addressed not just for Google
> but for the benefit of your visitors.
> They are too numerous to list here but I do
> have the report saved.
> Try running something like Xenu Link Sleuth to see them.
> That XLS utility is available as a free download, just Google it!
> Hope that helps,
> Abracadabra
> On Sep 26, 5:29 am, Glaughing wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In my webmasters account I have some strange 404 pages not found
> > errors.
Actually all broken links I have end up in style.css or the strange
$BlogBacklinkURL$
I have uploaded the report of Xenu here:
http://www.outranksmart.com/TGH93CF.htm
Now you know where the broken links are, so you need to fix your code.
It looks to me like there is a missing script which woulld serve to
translate $BlogBacklinkUrl$ to whatever dynamic value it's supposed to
be, and other similar ones.
Probaly a path problem too, judging from the style.css. You probbaly
have that in the root, but the code (template?) uses a relative
address for it.
> Actually all broken links I have end up in style.css or the strange
> $BlogBacklinkURL$
> I have uploaded the report of Xenu here:http://www.outranksmart.com/TGH93CF.htm
The URLs with "usg=" in them are often from spammy pages that use
weird tools to link to your pages (or search results pointing to your
pages). I wouldn't worry too much about them.
Oh those are folders on your site that have no index page. So when
Googelbot found a linksto one fo them it gets the typical directory
listing with columne headers that let you sort ascending or descending
by clicking on them - those are links like what you show.
Hover over the column headers and you will see those are the links
shoing in the browser status bar.
This is why I try not to keep any folder without either an index page
(I often upload a blank index.html file to each such directory) ,
or .htaccess directives that disallow directory listings and produce
an error (this depends on serevr configuration).
I also have a lot of those &usg 404s, I *think* they're added by
either analytics or adwords. If you strip them maybe you'll affect
your analytics results.
Not sure tho, it would be interesting to see if there's an effect from
stripping them.
> I also have a lot of those &usg 404s, I *think* they're added by
> either analytics or adwords. If you strip them maybe you'll affect
> your analytics results.
> Not sure tho, it would be interesting to see if there's an effect from
> stripping them.
It cannot hurt to strip them and redirect to the proper url without
thosquery string parameters. They make urls that don't exist, they
cannot be of any use.
> I also have a lot of those &usg 404s, I *think* they're added by
> either analytics or adwords. If you strip them maybe you'll affect
> your analytics results.
> Not sure tho, it would be interesting to see if there's an effect from
> stripping them.
