Where do these error 404 pages come from
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Hi,
I've got a list of about 12 url's in our 404 section on here which I'm confused about.
The url's relate to Christmas so they have not been active for 9 months.
Can anyone answer where the SeoMoz crawler found these url's as they are not linked to on the website.
Thanks
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I ran your site through ScreamingFrog which threw up 20 URLs that through 40x errors.
http://www.farmison.com/christmas is linked to from http://www.farmison.com/community/blog/christmas-with-farmison/
Also take a look at http://www.farmison.com/community/blog/christmas-cheese-competition/ which links to some removed pages.
The /christmas URL should not 404 you should either 301 redirect it somewhere or leave it online ready for this Christmas!
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Normally it means you've got a rogue links somewhere. Are you sure there's not a link lurking somewhere?
If you save your Crawl Diagnostics as a csv file, you'll be able to filter by the 4XX Client Error column (=True) and then see the referring page in the far right hand column. This should tell you the page with the rogue link!
Hope this helps - if not, can you tell me the name of the site and I'll be happy to take a look.
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