Remove 404 errors

[sterls]

I've got a site (www.dikelli.com.au) that has some 404 errors.

I'm using Dreamweaver to manage the site which was built for me by

I can't seem to figure out how to remove the 404 pages as it's not showing up in the directory?

How would I fix this up?

[danatanseo]

Hi sterls,

If the 404s are for pages that are gone and really no longer relevant, don't do anything. Just let them 404. This is perfectly normal. If they are 404 errors to pages that should be displaying, it's possible that perhaps you changed the page URLs, made a new page for old content (and then removed the old content page) or perhaps you re-wrote your URLs to be SEO friendly. In this case, all you have to do to rectify the 404s is set up 301 redirects. Depending on what platform you are using for your site there are usually some easy ways to do this. IN WordPress there's several very simple free 301-redirect management add-ons you can upload It usually involved inputting the old URL (which you can get from your Google Webmaster Tools crawl errors report) and then determining where you want that old URL to redirect to.

Let me know if that's helpful and if you need more guidance I'd be happy to help. Just know that not all 404 errors are bad. Sometimes, it's just natural for old pages to go away.

Dana

[sterls]

Thanks Dana, much appreciated. A SEO company recently suggested signing up to them as they said "Google hates 404 errors." Which got me researching about it.

On a slightly different topic, I've got several hundred pages on my site and it looks like the original designer had the same title for each page. Should I got through each one and rename it, or is there a faster way? Would it be worth the time?