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

giorgosnl
Participant

@giorgosnl

8 years, 8 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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Henry Wright
Moderator

@henrywright

8 years, 8 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

@giorgosnl

8 years, 8 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?

Henry Wright
Moderator

@henrywright

8 years, 8 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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