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    • duncan274
      duncan274 last edited by

      So when I look in wmt its telling me our site is about fish oil etc when we are web designers.

      We have blocked these pages in robots text and removed them.

      WMT is showing 500 errors in crawl errors and telling us we have health issues on our site.

      what should we do and how do i bulk select these errors is wmt  to mark as fixed (if they are fixed)

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      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley last edited by

        You should return a 410 status, or at least a 404, after a while the y will realize the pages no longer exist

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        • soltec
          soltec last edited by

          As well as following Alan's advice I would also create an xml site map of your site and submit Google & Bing.

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          • bobjones
            bobjones last edited by

            Creating a new sitemap and submitting it should get rid of those errors. And might I suggest you setup a development domain so you won't have these problems again in future? 🙂

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