404 not found
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i was messing about on the web and typed in garden flagging tips , and surprise there i was , so i clicked and got my home page with this on it ” 404 – not found ” . whatsa happening please , harry
http://harrythehandyman.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/hints-and-tips-about-d-i-y/
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I see there are two entries April2, and April 19 and I believe you have created either a Category or Tag with the exact same name as the missing post. Is that what happened here? http://tinyurl.com/328m3mk
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Or did you change the date on the post? If you changed the date on the post after it was published and indexed by the search engines, this will happen since changing the date also changes the URL for the post since the date is part of the post URL.
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I clicked both the post link in your first post here, and on the yahoo search, and both the link to the post itself, and the link in the yahoo search results takes me directly to that post.
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@TSP
Yeah, I’m betting he changed the URL ie. date, even though raincoaster and I tell bloggers over and over again never to mess with titles and dates in post URLs. -
no i had to fix about 25 posts 2 weeks ago as they were all wrong which means i had to delete 4 or 5 so that must be one of them , problem solved , thank you both
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Hi Harry,
I’m glad you posted again. I remember the excellent change you made from having a page structured blog to a post structured one. I’m so glad to hear you did not mess with the title or date.So here’s some good news. When a page “404”s you can use Google’s URL removal tool Google removes it form their cache more quickly. See > http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/how-to-remove-data-from-googles-cache/
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Then it must have been the changes you made a couple weeks ago. As TT says, those will catch up in a few months time typically. If you have a google webmaster account, you can actually request that they remove those URL’s that return a 404 from their indexes. I’m sure there must be something similar at Yahoo, but I have virtually no experience with them.
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@TSP
Like you I have zero “404” removal experience with Yahoo, but I have used the Google URL removal tool.Aside: The only time I approached Yahoo for help was with a domain mapping issue. I could find no way to notify them of the change to the domain and I was seeing both the root blog and domain in site explorer results. I emailed and the Staff member who was assigned to my ticket went above and beyond the call. In the end I was astonished to find how many links the domain had. :)
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