Comments on: Handling Your 404 Page Properly

By: Taras

Taras — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:50:23 +0000

Just something to think about. Google reports some pages as not found in my site, but I can view those pages in my browser and they certainly do not return 404 :)

By: tanveer

tanveer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:55:36 +0000

how can i remove Delete all the references to the 404 page in google web master tool, i have deleted all the pages from server

By: Rohit

Rohit — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:46:04 +0000

thnaks for nice suggestioon

By: kiwi freelancer

kiwi freelancer — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:42:23 +0000

how to seeting on web to to set up automatic 404 notification

By: David

David — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:47:23 +0000

Seems like Google continues to spider 404 pages for years. I wish they supported 410 Gone headers and removed those pages from all future spidering.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:46:29 +0000

@Pratheep – the best way to handle this is to remove ALL references to the nonexistent pages from your site and wait. After the bot revisits your site and sees no references to them, it will update the WT stats (in a time).

You can also block these pages with Robots.txt if they belong to one non-existent directory.

By: Pratheep

Pratheep — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:34:52 +0000

I have custom 404 page for the website, but still i can see a huge list of pages listed in my webmaster tool. how to eliminate it. should we completely block those pages from the bot?

FYI: we have removed many pages of our old html website and it is creating the 404 problem.

Pratheep

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:46 +0000

For 404 notification I am using internally built script for my sites. I also heard that this WordPress plugin for 404 notification might be useful (but never tried it myself).

By: jeok

jeok — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:17:10 +0000

good tool for 404?

By: Rob Woods

Rob Woods — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:24:02 +0000

What’s a good tool to set up automatic 404 notification?