My actual 404 page is giving a 4xx error.
The page address is http://www.ecowindchimes.com/v/404.asp
It loads fine... it is the page all 404's are directed to. Why is it showing a 404 error. The page works.
How can this be fixed?
Stephen
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My actual 404 page is giving a 4xx error.
The page address is http://www.ecowindchimes.com/v/404.asp
It loads fine... it is the page all 404's are directed to. Why is it showing a 404 error. The page works.
How can this be fixed?
Stephen
I looked on my redirrect file and found that /* redirects to /v/404.asp.
However if you look below at the link analysis the 404 page is getting a 404 error.
The homepage ecowindchimes.com/ is getting a 301 (but I don't know where it is going to).
The third one is also redirected.
1. [No Data] ecowindchimes.com/ ||| 301 ||| 2 ||| 36 2.
2. [No Data] ecowindchimes.com/v/404.asp ||| 404 ||| 2 ||| 34 3. [No Data]
3. ecowindchimes.com/index.html?lang=en-us&target=d2.html ||| 301 ||| 1 ||| 33
So I have 2 questions: 1) should this be fixed? and 2) how?
This is a volusion site and I believe the "catchall" redirect was done by them
Will Google still treat them the same if they are on another domain... even on another server. Does Google know they are mine if they are on different domain/server? I was concerned that I will sending out link juice on every page of my site with these.
I have a site on volusion, www.ecowindchimes.com. Until recently I was doing fairly well (top 3 for keyword(s) for 6 years) in serps. I was hit by the an update around july of last year, and did a full page redesign in november. My site has been losing ranking for its main keyword "wind chimes".
One change I noticed is that no-follow was removed (when the designers added a lightbox popup for the sound) from the many many links I have for my sound files of the wind chimes (I house them on a separate server to save bandwidth, which is expensive at volusion). The webaddress the sound-files are on doesn't even have a page... it is just there for the files. (there are ~100 files linked to on almost every page of the site where a product listing shows).
Should I go through and no-follow all of these links again? Is that hurting me?
I suspect it is, but it is a lot of work for nothing if that is not the problem.