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WMT show increase of 404 errors. where are they coming from?

@giorgosnl

Participant

9 years, 4 months ago

Thousands of 404 errors on my WMT. the urls are consisting of 2 parts. One part is the blog posts and the other part is the buddypress compose message url. Any idea why those urls are generated and detected by Webmaster tools?

blog/apples-ibeacons-matters/messages/compose/?r=davidmiller4312&_wpnonce=6b21171b87

blog/apples-ibeacons-matters/messages/compose/?r=jimmyparker&_wpnonce=6b21171b87

blog/apples-ibeacons-matters/messages/compose/?r=iitsolutions&_wpnonce=6b21171b87

blog/apples-ibeacons-matters/messages/compose/?r=sookielioncourt&_wpnonce=6b21171b87

Thanks,
Giorgos

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@henrywright

Moderator

9 years, 4 months ago
You could configure your robots.txt to exclude the /messages/ directory:
```
User-agent: *
Disallow: /messages/
```
With time, Googlebot should stop hitting that area of your website and the 404 errors will disappear?
@giorgosnl

Participant

9 years, 4 months ago

Thanks Henry, I have added it to the robots.txt, though this is not a directory. I dont have any /sitename/messages directory on the site. Something (a custom function maybe) is generating this url. Any idea what it takes to have such url generated and picked by google?

@henrywright

Moderator

9 years, 4 months ago

I’m not sure but perhaps it’s related to the private messaging component? I know those URLs look like /members/username/messages/etc..

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