Critical crawler errors...4xx

[Myflgreen]

Hey fam,

I ran the Critical Crawler Issues and found 9 pages with critical crawler issues. I'm running a wordpress site and looked in the dashboard for Pages and Posts but the links aren't in the dashboard.

Can you help fix? Thank you!

[ThompsonPaul]

If the crawler is returning 404 errors, it's because it can't find those pages when following links. Since those pages don't exist, you won't find them in your WP dashboard either, Myflgreen.

The next step is to determine if they should exist (i.e they've been deleted accidentally), in which case you need to rebuild them.

If in fact they don't exist on purpose, you then need to look at the pages that contain the links to the non-existent pages and fix those pages so they don't contain the broken link in their content. (You can find the linking pages by downloading the 404 error report.)

You'll also want to consider adding a redirect from the non-existent pages to another page on the site that provides essentially the same info, if such a page exists. (This is in case other websites might have been linking to those pages at some point)

Final note - sometimes, these links show up as 404s because the link itself is written slightly incorrectly - double check for that too, if the link seems to be pointing to a real page but is 404ing.

Hope that helps?

Paul