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    • thewebguy3
      thewebguy3 last edited by

      Hello,

      I just had a problem my site started showing up 404 issues for all my wordpress pages and post but visually the page was loading with content but yet all pages and software including google WMT was showing the 404 issue. I never found the issue but was able to move the site into a new hosting and restore from a backup and it work.

      Google found the issue on Jan 27th and they remove all the pages with 404 from the index and I lost most of my top ranking I have since fix the issue and was wondering if google would restore my ranking in such a case?

      Regards,

      M

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      • rootwaysinc
        rootwaysinc last edited by

        If you are sure then do Mark as fixed in GWT.

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        • Martijn_Scheijbeler
          Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

          Hi,

          Make sure that you check your site with a tool like ScreamingFrog to find out if there are any URLs on your site that will still give a 404. If that's the case make sure to fix them. Otherwise you should be able to mark them as fixed as answered before.

          Martijn.

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