crawl errors – why / how did I get these crawl errors?

  • First of all I’m a beginning/intermediate html webmaster but very green as to wordpress.

    This is my main issue that brought me here:
    I have WordPress 3.4.1 installed as a page on my site, it is not a WordPress site.

    So when I go to google webmaster tools and do a health check on my main site, it shows crawl errors which I’ve never had a problem with before and all these crawl errors are related to WordPress.

    It shows the following crawl errors as 404’s:

    wordpress/2012/06/20/which-reverse-osmosis-system/

    wordpress/comments/feed/

    wordpress/2011/08/25/hello-world/

    wordpress/2011/08/25/hello-world/trackback/

    wordpress/category/water-filters/

    wordpress/tag/which-is-the-best-water-filter/

    wordpress/tag/best-water-filter/

    wordpress/tag/water-filter-reviews/

    wordpress/tag/tap-water/

    wordpress/tag/compare-water-filters/

    wordpress/tag/drinking-water-2/

    wordpress/tag/multipure/

    wordpress/tag/bottled-water/

    comparewater

    wordpress/?feed=comments-rss2

    CompareWaterFilters.htmYou

    %20?iframe=true&width=100%&height=100%

    NSFC..

    Now most of these are pages I never created, to my knowledge. So I don’t understand how they ended up here as 404’s. Pages such as “CompareWaterFilters.htmYou” and “wordpress/tag/drinking-water-2/” are not pages and seem to be created by wordpress itself as far as I can guess…

    So the main question is:
    How do I get rid of these pages so google doesn’t punish me for having too many 404’s?
    And:
    How do I stop WordPress from creating these 404’s?

    Any help on this would be appreciated! And thanks in advance!

    2nd question: (hopefully this is an easy one for WordPress users!):

    The word press page on my site displays at mysite.com/wordpress .
    How do I change that to mysite.com/nameofmychoosing ?

    Do I just change the name of the WordPress folder in my hosting control center, or do I change it within the WordPress Dashboard somewhere?

    Thanks again for your help.

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  • Did you recently change your site’s Permalinks via your Settings->Permalinks page?

    As long as you have categories and tags, you will have automatically created links for them. That is why when you click on a tag or category, you get posts those links.

    Thread Starter seosoldier

    (@seosoldier)

    Hi, thank you for the replies!
    Rachel, I am not sure but I believe I changed the Permalinks to display Title instead of dates. Would that cause these 404 errors?! If so (or if not) is there a way to clean them up?

    Krishna, I can understand that links are created but then why are the links now 404’s? And most importantly is there a way to avoid getting these 404’s? I do not want 404’s associated with my web site so if WordPress randomly creates 404’s I will need to detach it from my web site.

    I really don’t get why WordPress would create 404’s. Is this a common thing? Is there a way to avoid it? And once created how do I clean them up?

    Thanks again for the replies!

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