Google webmaster errors
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**If you know what these google webmasters errors mean, and you can explain it to me in simple english and tell me how I can locate the problem, I would really appreciate it!.
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| | Server error |
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| | Soft 404 |
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| | Access denied |
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Not found |
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| |** I have many of these errors, is it harming SEO?Yoseph
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Only bad if those 404 pages are resulting from pages in your own site. ( For example, the page that has the 404 is being linked to by another page on yoru site) Not from external sites. That being said, fix them. It's easy. If the page actually doesn't exist then remove them from your sitemap and them remove url like I mentioned before. If the page exists (like example.com/page but the 404 is for example.com/page.html) you can 301 pages or fix your site extensions. I know Joomla has a SEF URL setting.
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404 is harming seo?
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This is an area where I'm not too familiar. I would post a new question and give describe in length what is going on. Do my steps first and if you don't get all of them cleared up then post new question and have a server guy help you. Good Luck!
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Host with hostgeter and use joomla for website and Wordpress for blog.
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Looks like it is a hosting server error. Where do you host and what platform are you on? (html, wordpress, joomla, etc)
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Not found I have many from this 4 type of errors. whats the diffrence.
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My pleasure. Hope it helps. Keep us updated either way.
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I will do that step by step and keep you updated and ask for advise when I need to! Thank you very very much!
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A Soft 404 generally means that someone has requested a page that wasn't found by Google. You might want to "Fetch as Google" to find any pages that are being linked to that do not exist. (Go into WMT and under that specific URL, under "Health", select "Fetch as Google") This should give you a list of all the URLs that are returning a 404 or other errors. If you have already done this, make sure that the pages that are showing up in your errors are not still included in your sitemap. (remove them if they are and then remove the URLs from Google by going to Optimization and Remove URLs) You should also make sure that the "preferred URL" has been selected for your site. If you use the www version of your site and the non www has the errors (or vise versa) then this could be the problem too. (You'll have to confirm both versions of your site and then go into configuration, settings then preferred domain). I gave you a lot of work here but these should solve the problem. If not, post any feedback and any solutions you worked on.
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