MikeMovies

just as a reference point I also tried uploading a backup htaccess file. no good. At this point im wondering if anyone knows how I can remove 3.1 till this bug is addressed.

Hopefully somebody can settle my panic for me and point me to an easy fix!

As a quick followup when I changed it to STANDARD ie, not /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ it now works.

Those of you who are having the same problem might consider trying this as a quick fix.

That would definitely cause 404 errors but that is not what happened with me. I will try to get some time to build a page and show how it 404’s just so everyone can see.

I do not have any live pages now that 404 because it cost me 38% of my readership having this mistake in place and not noticing it for so long since the 404 blocked google from seeing my content. I have removed the code completely so google can now spider again.

When I get a second I am sure I can reproduce it quite easily. All I did was put the header inclusion code into my header as your writeup instructed and google was no longer able to spider it. 404 everytime.

Its tricky to catch because if i just load the url it loads fine. You need to look in google webmaster tools logs or use a google emulator to catch it. I am sure it also 404’d to yahoo but its such a small traffic segment its not worth getting upset over.

Not really sure. I have a custom built cms from the ground up and your great paper made me move towards altering my site to use WordPress only as the backend to power my site while retaining most of my cms and frontend.

As a start I updated all my old news pages to have ‘related features’ on the top ( https://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_17587.html ) as a result every single one of my pages were sending a 404 error to google and were delisted from google. A HUGE nightmare when you count on advertising to cover your operating costs of a hobby out of control.

I didnt catch the bug till my traffic plummetted because the pages load fine in every browser and it was only when I ran a google spider simulation that I found everything was 404’ing.