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Clean Up the Crawl Errors on Your Sites

February 11, 2014 by Shawn Collins

I was looking at my Google Webmaster Tools account a while back for my blog, and I had an awful number of crawl errors, also known as 404 errors, where there is a file not found on a site.

internet error 404 - file not found

In my defense, my blog was started in 2004 and I’ve used multiple platforms over the year, which resulted in many directory setups, file extensions, etc.

At the end of last month, I had over 900 crawl errors on my blog, and I set up a reminder to tackle them. But I have been putting it off for weeks, because it doesn’t look like a particularly fun project.

Then it finally struck me this past weekend – I have to fix this stuff ASAP. I’m voluntarily giving a lousy experience all over the place to my site visitors.

So I figured I’d make it a point to knock out 10 a day until I was done.

I’ve been going through one at a time with the Crawl Errors in Google Webmaster Tools, and creating redirects to fix them with the a redirection plugin.

As I fix and test them, I click “Mark as Fixed” for each error link and make that list smaller.

I’ve been doing more than 10 on a lot of days, and now I’m down to 548 bad links. I think I’ll knock this out by the end of the month.

How about your links – are they all working OK?

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