How to fix the 404 errors for a website?

Hi Friends,

Some times after visiting the landing page or any service pages it shows 404 error. How can be consolidate?

Waiting for your responses.

Thanks &Regards
Jones

 

It means you have broken links on your website or the paths specified have nothing there. You need to edit and add the correct link to your web pages. Like www.example.com/example.php if someone name it www.example.com/exampel.php it will give 404 error. Sometimes when pages are removed or deleted it also shows 404 errors.

 

If its removed pages you can add a 404 redirect in a htaccess file

 

Are you trying to fix 404's on your own website or are seeing these issues with someone else's? If it's a real 404 (and not caused by apache rules), you can use a program to try to locate all the incorrect links on your site.

 

If you are using wordpress, there are plugins to fix 404's.

 

Broken links gives 404 status error. To fix this:
1) If you want to continue with those pages, make those pages live
2) Else log in to Google webmaster tools -> Domain Dashboard -> Crawl Access -> Remove URL -> Enter 404 broken link and submit url to remove from Google cache & index.

 

I had similar problems in the past and if you have the full control on hosting, it is better to create 301 redirect rules for all the broken links whether possible. Removing the links from google webmaster tools is a temporary workaround, because if the broken links were published on several (external) websites, then google will index them more and more.

 

Sorry, I was forgotten to say. After removing broken links from Google WMT, disallow those links in robots.txt