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    • TCUFrogFanReport
      TCUFrogFanReport last edited by

      Hi All,

      Has anyone seen this 404 error before?  I installed a wordpress plugin that would allow users to switch between a mobile and desktop theme.  This was about 6 months ago and I thought nothing of it.

      Since I am new to SeoMoz, I have become aware of this lovely problem.  After setting up my campaign, I now have 1600 something 404 errors due to this plugin.  It looks like this plugin creates 4 to 5 links for each one of my posts and they all return up as a 404 error.

      Example:

      http://frogfanreport.com/football/page/36/

      or

      http://frogfanreport.com/football/page/36/?wpmp_switcher=desktop

      I just noticed this morning in Google Webmaster tools that the errors are starting to show up there.

      Has anyone seen this?  Or know if this is a problem and what to do?

      zach

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      • EricaMcGillivray
        EricaMcGillivray last edited by

        Not sure what plug-in you're using, but my non-profit's website had a similar issue earlier this year where some of the mobile traffic would randomly 404 or show a non-mobile person the mobile site. We found that it was a conflict between that plug-in and another we were using to cache the site. We went ahead and got rid of the cache plug-in, which had numerous issues including slowing down our site, and that seemed to solve it.

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        • TCUFrogFanReport
          TCUFrogFanReport @EricaMcGillivray last edited by

          I was using Wordpress Mobile Pack.    It is currently deactivated but would like to find something that works.  Any recommendations?

          Also, the only cache that I know off the top of my head is with XML Site Map generator.  I can enable that.  Is that what you are talking about or should I look somewhere else?

          Thanks for responding...

          z

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          • EricaMcGillivray
            EricaMcGillivray @TCUFrogFanReport last edited by

            We use WPTouch, which is pretty easy to use and seems to work well. It was having issues with WP Super Cache.

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            • TCUFrogFanReport
              TCUFrogFanReport @TCUFrogFanReport last edited by

              Works perfectly thanks.  Guess we will see over time if it stops errors from occuring.

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