Error 404

  • Resolved visureclic

    (@visureclic)


    2 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,
    I can’t understand a problem I’ve been having for a long time.
    I find many 404 errors referring to completely non-existent pages.
    The list of these errors is detected by both Google Search Console and your plugin.
    Where does this problem arise?

    Thanks
    Giusy P.

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  • Plugin Support Rank Math Support

    (@rankmathteam)

    Hello @visureclic,

    Thank you for contacting the support.

    Please note that we only report 404s, we do not have information on how or why they are generated. You can get further insight into them by enabling the advanced monitor at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > 404 Monitor.

    That will give you more information like the referrer and the user-agent. You can use that information to track down the source or find out if it is just bots generating those errors.

    You can also fix these errors by redirecting them to a related page on your website:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-404-errors/

    Or, you can add them to the exclusion list at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > 404 Monitor > Exclude Paths

    If you are seeing random 404s that you know for a fact are incorrect – it is likely generated by a bot and can be safely ignored. You could also use a service like Cloudflare to block out access to bots so they do not use up your server resources.

    Here’s a great article on how to secure your WordPress website:
    https://mythemeshop.com/blog/wordpress-security-tips/

    And if you are also seeing the errors in the GSC account, it means that Googlebot is trying to crawl the URLs that no longer exist and that’s why you are seeing the errors in both the GSC account and our plugin.

    Hope this helps.

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