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HI all,

I am faced with a crawl errors issue of a huge site (>1MiO pages) for which I am doing On-page Audit.

• 404 Erorrs: >80'000

• Soft 404 Errors: 300

• 500 Errors: 1600

All of the above reported in GWT.

Many of the error links are simply not present on the pages "linked from". I investigated a sample of pages (and their source) looking for the error links footprints and yet nothing.

What would be the right way to address this issue from SEO perspective, anyway? Clearly. I am not able to investigate the reasons since I am seeing what is generated as HTML and NOT seeing what's behind.

So my question is: Generally, what is the appropriate way of handling this?

1. Telling the client that he has to investigate that (I gave my best to at least report the errors)

2. Engaging my firm further and get a developer from my side to investigate?

Thanks in advance!!

I am paying the designer for doing design work.  He should not expect free advertising as part of the deal unless it is negotiated up front.  I have the attitude that the advertising should cost a lot more than the design job

@EGOL, I couldn't agree more! I found myself in such situation when paid to web-designer to make a site. From a client point of view it was a great surprise to see his company link in the footer (moreover he didn't inform me). At that time, I told to myself "well probably this is an industry standard or something". But the bottom line is that I paid for this site and that is why I am not in anyway obliged to advertise the designer who made it.

I am paying the designer for doing design work.  He should not expect free advertising as part of the deal unless it is negotiated up front.  I have the attitude that the advertising should cost a lot more than the design job

@EGOL, I couldn't agree more! I found myself in such situation when paid to web-designer to make a site. From a client point of view it was a great surprise to see his company link in the footer (moreover he didn't inform me). At that time, I told to myself "well probably this is an industry standard or something". But the bottom line is that I paid for this site and that is why I am not in anyway obliged to advertise the designer who made it.