Google Web Crawl Error - Page Not Found

Hi there,

On my website I have a page that redirects to an affiliate link. I created a .htaccess file which redirects the page in question to my affiliate link.

On Google webmaster tools, it has said that there is a page missing - and this is the page that redirects to the affiliate link.

I'm just wondering, is there a way of getting rid of this error? And would it do any harm to my site ranking at the moment?


I thought that by using a .htaccess redirect it wouldn't get picked up by a missing page in Google, obviously I was wrong though.


Thanks for any help

 

The link is going off-site I'm assuming, so either way it has no SEO value. You'll see that error disappear in a few crawls, it might becoming up since the link is off-site I'm not sure.

 

Thanks ssandecki, reps given.

So is there nothing I should do, to prevent the error showing up?

 

why are you doing that .htaccess redirect? Is it because you don't want to link directly to these sites? why not just use the nofollow tag?

 

I think they are trying to redirect to an off-site affiliate page\landing page, or atleast thats what I assumed in my answer above.

 

I thought that by using .htaccess it was the best way to do a redirect, perhaps I should just use the no follow command instead...

Do you think google will stop showing the error if I did that?

Thanks for the help