404 error??? Is that 404

brett1425 — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:10:14 +0000

404 error??? Is that 404 error???

I believe that you can create

ms2134 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:12:59 +0000

I believe that you can create a well worded 404 Page so when the Search Engine does hit that page; then it has something to read about your site instead of the standard 404 error message that Wordpress or VB may Display.

Search bots are bad about

Daryll1 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:10:14 +0000

Search bots are bad about perpetually hitting 404s...they never want to give up on the change of that URL coming back up on the site. Google Bot seems to do this very frequently with one of my sites.

By "customized" you mean

aharown07 — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:32:03 +0000

By "customized" you mean pages generated dynamically based on what the url was? ...as opposed to a single "customized" page? Just want to be clear. What I do now is have one default page... but it's a customized page. Doesn't have any dynamic content though.

It is better to have a

PHPonly — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:24:49 +0000

It is better to have a simple customer error page for every error and not many for one single error. Search engines prefer default error pages instead of customized pages.

404s are bad when links are

mrgilb — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:26:55 +0000

404s are bad when links are pointing to the pages that don't exist.

Have some more info now.

aharown07 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:09:25 +0000

Have some more info now. Quite a few of the 404's on "search.php" are coming from google crawler.
So I wonder why they would do that? I think I even added search.php on the "don't" part of robots.txt.

Here's a hunch: could it have something to do with the fact that we signed up with Google Analytics back when we were Wordpress+vBulletin and kept the same account when we moved to Drupal? Just guessing.
Also saw google crawler 404's on http://ourdomain.com/001, which is curious because /001 is where I had my development site for several months (it no longer exists).

Thanks for the info. I do

aharown07 — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:43:57 +0000

Thanks for the info. I do have Webmaster Tools, just haven't learned to use a whole lot of it yet. I'll look around.

I think member.php and

Megan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:21:41 +0000

I think member.php and profile.php are vBulletin files.

A lot of 404's on search.php is weird - don't know why that would be happening.

Are you signed up for Google Webmaster Tools? If you go in there I think they show you where those 404's are coming from (who is linking to those pages).

Also research 301 redirects - that will let you point your old URLs to new ones. I'll try to find out what we did here when we moved from vBulletin to Drupal.