Wordpress Website + 404 Errors

[ThinkShiftInc]

Hi everyone,

I like to do a bit of auditing for our clients using SEOMoz. Once client that's using a Wordpress website had reported over a couple hundred 404 errors. However, when checking out the links, all the webpages (that I've tested) loaded just fine.

Does anyone know why this would be the case? I thought, perhaps, the website might have gone down when it was crawling, but I have no evidence to back this up.

[siteoptimized]

How did the client get the information?

[ThinkShiftInc]

Sorry, I should have clarified, one client [on my SEOMoz campaign] is reporting a couple hundred 404 errors, but the pages load fine for me.

[siteoptimized]

I see. The SEOMoz tool is displaying this. I would report it to SEOMoz then.

[KeriMorgret]

You can do a crawl of up to 3000 URLs from http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test, which would let you know if the site is still giving off 404s. Also, you could run a server header checker tool to see what header codes the URLs give and make sure they're not returning a 404 even though they're loading fine.

[ThinkShiftInc]

Thanks Keri, I'll give this a try and see what I find.