Error 404 Not Found in google search
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Hi again! We submitted my blog to Google Search last month, and then I made changes to my blog. I took out all the pages, but now if you search for BelleWeather Farm on Google, one page you get is this, with the notice “Error 404, not found”:
http://belleweatherfarm.wordpress.com/about/
Two Questions:
1- Can I somehow delete that from Google Search?
2- OR, can I put it back in my blog and be SURE that the page will have the above address?I don’t want people finding empty pages….it never helps!
ThanksThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The About page can’t be found? Hmm. Usually when it shows that error is because the title of the post has been changed unless you remember the exact wording. But this seems different though. Hopefully someone else here can help.
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Even though #2 seems simpler, it’s not necessarily a good choice on its own as there’s never any guarantee what google will return. So I’d do #1 first and only when the url is removed would I create the page again, if necessary.
You can use google webmaster tools to request a url removal and it usually takes 2 -5 days for that to happen. If you haven’t verified your blog yet, that’s the first step:
http://support.wordpress.com/verifying-with-google-webmaster-tools/
A 404 is not only undesirable for visitors to your blog, it’s not good for your SERP/SEO either, so you’ll want to request url removal of all the pages you deleted.
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Uh oh, I deleted a LOT of pages, and I don’t remember what they all were! If I just keep checking google search from time to time and get rid of the one’s that are turning up, will that be good enough? So far, there’s only been one with a problem/
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I just spent a LONG time trying to figure out the meta/tags thingie. I am thoroughly confused and don’t really know what I am trying to do once I get to the webmaster tools place?
Also, they keep asking me if I am the webmaster of my site…..I don’t even know (Yes, I really am a techno-dolt, much better with farm animals!). Am I the webmaster of my blog or is WordPress?
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You’re the webmaster. Don’t worry about meta tags.
And once you’re set up with webmaster tools, google will always show you a list of unreachable urls, so you don’t have to remember much. If one is a page or post you know you haven’t deleted, check the reason and it will probably be something like failed to connect. Murphy’s Law applies here too: if there are 2 seconds in a week when your blog is unreachable, they are the 2 seconds when googlebot crawls. ;)
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Oh boy, this is an area I’m just not grasping. I went back to the webmaster tools, and when it asks me to verify, they want me to upload an html page. Do I have one:)? Maybe it’s time to grab a techno-weenie friend and have them run through some of this with me? There’s definitely something I’m missing about the bigger picture!
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If you created one you have one. I’m very sorry but I can’t explain the steps any clearer or simpler than they’re explained in the support doc I linked to above. Is one step in particular giving you trouble?
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Okay ella, I took a deeper look, and somehow, when I was on the main webmaster page, I missed the first whole main instruction! Tonight when life quiets down, I’ll spend some time with it again and see what I can do…you folk sure have a lot of patience for we beginners!
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