How to remove Too many 404 notfound url's

Discussion in 'Google' started by abanalex, Nov 7, 2011.

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    I have a Site and i recently deleted many old posts of about 20000 and this results too many 404 notfound pages of about 19500 are showing in my webmasters central and this also resulted a major drop in my serp position..can anyone tell me how to remove 404 pages from google index. so that i can gain my serp position.is there any ranking Effect because of these error
     
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  2. Blogvis

    Blogvis Well-Known Member

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    #2
    try to block them with robots.txt or a no follow meta too.
     
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  3. 2point2

    2point2 Peon

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    I have some 404 errors also. I cannot figure out how to get rid of them but was told they will not effect ranking in google. Hopfullu that's true.
     
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    ozrocks22 Member

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    The only ranking error would be if your sites were reflecting PR and you removed them. I would try some .htaccess changes to redirect the removed pages to at the very least the homepage. You never want the user to land at a dead page.
     
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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #5
    You can remove the URLs in Google Webmaster Tools, once you've submitted a sitemap.
     
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  7. diamondzul

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    but i thing it's not good way to direct remove URL google webmaster, first you block URL through robots and after then you can remove from webmaster tools.....
     
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    Try 301 redirect may helps you to solve this problem.
     
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  9. abanalex

    abanalex Peon

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    How Can I Block All Not Found 404 URL Through The No Follow Robot.txt. Will You Plz Share Complete Procedure.
     
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    I would do it via htaccess. Where is your root domain & where are the files you removed? Are they in the root me.com/xxx.html or are they in a directory /somedirectlry/files
     
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  11. simple007

    simple007 Well-Known Member

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    Can you explain how can we do this ? Is it applicable for blogger also ?
     
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  12. aaliyaroy07

    aaliyaroy07 Peon

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    You can remove the URLs in Google Webmaster Tools
     
    aaliyaroy07, Nov 25, 2011 IP
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    If that many number of URLs are not found then it means that there is a serious problem with the internal linking of your site. That much number of URLs means that Google will not take your site seriously.
     
    SerVision, Dec 2, 2011 IP
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    After a while the search engines will eventually figure out that the pages have been removed, but you would have had better luck doing a 301 redirect
     
    golfpro1, Dec 3, 2011 IP