404 erros on wordpress blog

[bjalc2011]

Both SEOMOZ and Google webmaster tools report lots of 404 errors throughout my wordpress blog.

I have the url structure set to category/title

Most of the 404 errors seem to be that the crawler is looking for a /home.html page. Each time I add a new post I get more 404 errors. I could, of course, add 301 redirects but I presume there is an easy way to do this within the WP setup.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[bjalc2011]

Many thanks David.

Regards

Blaine

[bjalc2011]

Hi Steven

Thanks for the advice. I've now got the Yoast plugin and starting to work with that.

Regards

Blaine

[sferrino]

Aside from checking out the Yoast plugin, make sure your sitemap is up to date. There is a reason the bots are going to those pages, the question is why.

[LabadieAuto]

Try the Yoast SEO plugin.  This will allow you to put nofollow and indexation rules that will help with blocking the crawlers from indexing archives, admin pages, comments, tag pages, search results and more.  This will really clean up your errors and make the site more relevant to Google.