My wordpress custom theme is giving 700+ 404 erros

Manish Pandey · Share | #1 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 02:15 PM

Hey guys,

Anybody who has seen this or can have a look at my site? The site gives 700+ 404 page not found errors on Google webmasters.

Site: www[.]manishpandey[.]com

When crawler go deep down the pages like 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25.

www[.]manishpandey[.]com/page/19/ - works fine till 19 but starts showing page not found from 20.

www[.]manishpandey.com/page/20/
www[.]manishpandey.com/page/25/ - last page

Then there are 100s of pages like this. www[.]manishpandey[.]com/page/24/?s=blog
I don't understand from where did the google crawler found it to index it.
It shows the above url www[.]manishpandey[.]com/page/24/?s=blog is linked from these pages
www[.]manishpandey[.]com/page/10/?s=blog&paged=11
www[.]manishpandey[.]com/page/4/?s=blog

and similarly the other posts are linked from various other pages but I don't see them.

Let me know if there's anything else you need.

Thanks,

**snakeair** · #2 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 02:22 PM

I had this issue in the past but after I switched to Yoast SEO plugin I was able to put a checkmark on a option to not have /page/34/ indexed by the search engines.

Quote:

This what I had changed--> Noindex subpages of archives
(If you want to prevent /page/2/ and further of any archive to show up in the search results, enable this.)

Took a long time for Google to remove all those pages from there index (404's included)

I know that you are using the All In One SEO plugin and i'm not sure if there is a option to prevent these pages from getting indexed.

In google webmaster tools, click on CONFIGURATION and then URL PARAMETERS. You can fix things up in there.

Manish Pandey · #3 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 02:32 PM

Thanks Derek.

I'll take a look at it and inform here if it helped. Also, can there be some coding problems?

**snakeair** · #4 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 02:35 PM

Could be, I ran your blog through the validator and you do have a few errors.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0

Most likely it's just the theme that needs a few tweaks. I try to keep my error's under 10. lol

Manish Pandey · #5 (**permalink**) 08-11-2012, 03:08 PM

Wow...that was too many errors there. LOL

I've changed the theme for now. Will keep it for a few weeks for Google to crawl and see if the problem gets solved.

Thanks again Derek.

For the time being if any wordpress coder wishes to check up my markup then please PM me. We can discuss about it and I can compensate you for your time.