4xx fix
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Hi
I have quite a lot of 4xx errors on our site. The 4xx occurred because I cleaned poor URLs that had commas etc in them so its the old URLs that now 4xx. There are no links to the URLs that 4xx.What is the best way of rectifying this issue of my own making?!
Thanks
Gavin -
OK, thanks Dean. I'll update the sitemap and look into rectifying the errors identified by screamingfrog.
Thanks for your assistance!
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No, I would recommend that you fix the underlying issue. I can see from your sitemap that you still have the URL's with commas in.
Personally I would use screamingfrog.co.uk to find your crawl errors as you will not need to wait a week for the next report.
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I was waiting for the next crawl as I thought the 4xx would be removed from the crawl diagnostics, however I received a new crawl report today and they are still listed in the report.
I think the simplest way to remove the 4xx would be to create 301s for the URLs. Would you agree? -
So since you tidied the URL's has moz crawled your site again or are you waiting for the next crawl?
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Where are you seeing the errors being reported? If you have corrected the problem with the error URL's and there are no links to theses URL's then there should not be a problem.
If however you are seeing theses URL's in the search results then yes a 301 redirect would be appropriate.
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