404 Error

[OTSEO]

Hello,

Seomoz flagged a url as having a 404 client error. The reason the link doesn't return a proper content page is because the url name was changed.

What should we do? Will this error disappear when Google indexes our site again? Or is there some way to manually eliminate it?

Thanks!

[MoosaHemani]

The URL is changed means there must be a new URL for this... the idea is to 301 redirect the old URL to the new one so that anyone who will visit the old URL will automatically switched to the new URL where the content is available.

Hope this helps!

[OTSEO]

Hi Moosa,

Thanks for the reply!

This is the same as a question I asked yesterday, but how do you do a 301 redirect? Is it on the site or on the server? Is there a little piece of html code I can put in to indicate that a redirect is expected?

Thanks!

[MoosaHemani]

Now this is very much depends upon what language you are using the system will be different for ASP and PHP or if you are using any CMS then setting up a 301 Redirect will be different!

Need more information to answer this!

[OTSEO]

Hi Moosa,

We are using a Drupal (6) website. Does that give you enough information? Drupal is its own CMS, right?

Thanks!

[MoosaHemani]

Usually there is a path redirect module in Durpal.. all you have to do is to add that module and set redirect from old URL to the new one.

Here is a guide that might help!

http://www.volacci.com/blog/ben-finklea/2010/november/05/drupal-seo-tutorial-how-set-301-redirects

[OTSEO]

Hi Moosa,

Wow - that is a super helpful answer. I don't know how to install a Drupal modul, but it's great to see there is an easy way to do this. Much appreciated! I'll try and figure out how to install that patch and go from there.

Cheers!