URL errors in Google Webmaster Tool

[Richard555]

Hi

Within Google Webmaster Tool 'Crawl errors' report by clicking 'Not found' it shows 404 errors its found.

By clicking any column headings and it will reorder them.

One column is 'Priority' - do you think Google is telling me its ranked the errors in priority of needing a fix?

There is no reference to this in the Webmaster tool help.

Many thanks

Nigel

[MikeRoberts]

An explanation of the priority column from http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/crawl-errors-next-generation.html:

• We’ve ranked the errors so that those at the top of the priority list will be ones where there’s something you can do, whether that’s fixing broken links on your own site, fixing bugs in your server software, updating your Sitemaps to prune dead URLs, or adding a 301 redirect to get users to the “real” page. We determine this based on a multitude of factors, including whether or not you included the URL in a Sitemap, how many places it’s linked from (and if any of those are also on your site), and whether the URL has gotten any traffic recently from search.

[Richard555]

Your a star!

Many thanks Mike

Nigel