Where do these error 404 pages come from

[SimmoSimmo]

Hi,

I've got a list of about 12 url's in our 404 section on here which I'm confused about.

The url's relate to Christmas so they have not been active for 9 months.

Can anyone answer where the SeoMoz crawler found these url's as they are not linked to on the website.

Thanks

[DougRoberts]

Normally it means you've got a rogue links somewhere. Are you sure there's not a link lurking somewhere?

If you save your Crawl Diagnostics as a csv file, you'll be able to filter by the 4XX Client Error column (=True) and then see the referring page in the far right hand column. This should tell you the page with the rogue link!

Hope this helps - if not, can you tell me the name of the site and I'll be happy to take a look.

[Found]

I ran your site through ScreamingFrog which threw up 20 URLs that through 40x errors.

http://www.farmison.com/christmas is linked to from  http://www.farmison.com/community/blog/christmas-with-farmison/

Also take a look at http://www.farmison.com/community/blog/christmas-cheese-competition/ which links to some removed pages.

The /christmas URL should not 404 you should either 301 redirect it somewhere or leave it online ready for this Christmas!