Ok I just observed today that one of my website shows 2 Pages which give 404 error while they are linked from 48 and 100 pages. I just saw the source of those page source of those pages and observed thats its related to disqus : 404 Error page : /embed.js?pname=wordpress&pver=2.61 Linking Page's source : <script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ (function() { var dsq = document.createElement('script'); dsq.type = 'text/javascript'; dsq.async = true; dsq.src = 'http://' + disqus_shortname + '.' + disqus_domain + '/embed.js?pname=wordpress&pver=2.61'; (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(dsq); })(); /* ]]> */ </script> Code (markup): Similarly some pages link /forums and that also shows a 404 error, and diqus is involved in that too. So I just wanted to know how we can fix this. the best way would be fixing it through disqus which I can't seem to find or the other way maybe by using robots.txt but I don't think robots.txt would do any good to SEO because Google would still consider a 404 page existing on the linking page and might cause poor rankings. Also the /forums linking pages are all /tag pages and the /embed linking pages are all post pages. Any help ?
mainly 404 error comes when your link is broken. when you are clicking on the link from somewhere it is not getting the landing page so check your links. it will solve your problem
I am having this exact same problem. I don't understand why and I don't understand where the 404 link is coming from. any help would be great. thx.
I just installed a 301 redirect Wordpress plugin. I redirected the 404 error pages like /forums and stuff to home-page.