I'm getting two 404 errors that I do not understand Google says these two sites aren't found... http://www.medp.net/city_and_special...ardiology.html http://www.medp.net/specialty/billin...diologist.html Thats simple they aren't found on the sitemap at all... none of my URLs have a ... in them but that unfortunately is what google is listing the URL as The actual URLs are... http://www.medp.net/city_and_specia...a_medical_billing_service_for_cardiology.html (which is one of many URLS that have city_and_special and ardiology.html in them.) and http://www.medp.net/specialty/billing_service_for_cardiologist.html How do I fix this 404 error? The pages are obviously posted. the only think i can think of is that the URLs are too long to be read? Please help!
Are you sure 404 URLs are not linked or redirected to from anywhere? If you are, check this about Webcrawl Diagnostics. Essentially, G' tools will report 404s for URLs that have been linked from anywhere (e.g. from external websites) for a long time (even if fixed).
The links listed with the 404 errors arent actually linked from the homepage. or any offshoot of the website. I didn't think that would matter someone told me having them on the sitemap was sufficient. Am I getting these errors because they aren't linked from the homepage? Is a page not linked directly from the homepage or an offshoot referred to as an external page? Just trying to get my terminology down.
The errors your see are not necessarily related to sitemaps. Google will happily report 404 errors to you even when your website+sitemaps do not have any wrong internal links/redirects. It's enough some other website at some point in time has a wrong link to your website. For instance this forum thread now contains links to your website with URLs having "..." in them. And Google will keep reporting that as 404s to you.
Yea I noticed that the links I have in the original post shrank down to contain the "..." I'm going to try and shorten the links or create some redirects. Thanks for the help!
You have 3 Options to fix this issues 1 ) Make an entry like this in your .htaccess file # '404 Not Found' error ErrorDocument 404 /YOUR HOME PAGE or 404 ERROR PAGE.html (Use Enhanced 404 error pages tool in google Sitemaps) 2)Remove those links from Google Index using (Remove URL tool in google webmasters) 3)Forget it, let it be like that.. dont panic about these errors. it happen with most of webpages. Thanks WebStreetSmart Team
I'm using ctrl c ad ctrl v to generate the pages haha I'm new to webdesign and also self taught so I wasn't aware that there were any scripts available. the website was developed using Dreamweaver
Google will happily report 404 errors to you even when your website+sitemaps do not have any wrong internal links/redirects. It's enough that some other website at some point in time has a wrong link to your website. You can check my FAQ entry about 404s in Webmaster Tools.