Error 404 Search Console

[mobic]

Hi all,

We have a number of 404 https status listed in Search Console even treated, not decrease. What happened:

1. We launched a website with the urls www.meusite.com/url-abc.
2. We launched these urls sitemap.
3. Google has indexed.

... For some reason, the urls were changed four days later by some developer in my equipe. So

4. I asked the redirection of URLs "old" already indexed to the new (of: / url-abc to / url-xyz) all correspondingly.
5. I submit the sitemap with new urls.
6. We fixed the internal links.
7. And than marked as fixed in the Search Console.

But it does not work!

Has anyone had a similar experience?

Thanks for any advice!

[mobic]

Thanks for the answer Bernadette Coleman.

Yes, it can be a Google issues. But the biggest problem is that the Google Adwords team, are trying to make ads with some urls , and some Urls are being blocked by Google Adwords.

Note: The URLs that are reproved are not on the console search sampling, do not have 404 http status or redirects. Are the final URLs with 200 https Status

- Google Support answer - Disapproved ads

It seems that the issue is with the URLs. When our system crawled, they resulted in 404 violations
Hence, I request you to check Google Webmaster tools to identify the issue. Also, I request you to speak with your development team to identify the issue.
Once the issue has been fixed, I kindly ask you to re-submit the ads in the account, which will cause our system to re-review them.

About the 404 errors on console. I had already taken the 404 urls sampling console and tracked screaming frog:

246 urls Status 404
303 urls Status 200
459 urls status 301

70% of URLs were corrected, were marked as corrected on console, but Google insists back them to the list.

[becole]

This could be a Google issue. It takes some time for Google to "forget" about URLs they know about, so they may continue to crawl old URLs.

If you have redirected these URLs and they are not showing a 404 error, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. I would still mark them as fixed in Google Search Console and then see if they come back again. I would also test those URLs randomly using the Googlebot user agent.

One thing you can do, however, is to crawl those URLs yourself using Screaming Frog or another similar spider tool. Make sure you have the user agent set as Googlebot just to make sure that you're seeing what Google might potentially see. When you crawl, you should see the redirects. If not, then you will need to look into why you're seeing a 404 error.