Why these pages are reported as "pages not found"?

[WearYouWant]

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[LesleyPaone]

Because you are sending a 404 header with the request, that is how google determines if a page is found or not found.

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi,

The redirection implemented here is JS based with a delay of 10 seconds, the HTTP header status throws a 404 status code, so the status will still be 'Not Found'. Moreover, for the crawler, the page does not get redirected as it cannot process JS so, for it, the status will be, 'Not Found'. You can check this with Screamingfrog SEO Spider. You can even try to disable JavaScript in your browser and you will find that the page does stays as is and will not redirect to the homepage.

Apart from this, your non-www version of the URL (http://wearyouwant.com/en/brand-bisous-bisous.html) is being redirected to the homepage via 301. This should not be the case. The non-www version should have been ideally redirected to www version via 301.

The ideal way should be, to handle the 404 error using a custom error document and then give an option to the visitor to decide how to go about your website. You should not automatically redirect the page.

Good Luck my friend.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi

[vivekrathore]

For Google its "page not found" because you are declaring on the http header as a 404 page.

But for user if waits for 10 secs will get redirected to the home page.

But do you really think any user will stay on the page with no content for 10 seconds?

I suggest you reduce the redirection time.

Hope this helps.