Error message
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I’m sorry I can’t be any more helpful. :( I don’t get error messages so we will have to leave this until another blogger can come up with an idea as to why this is happening for you.
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Leatrice I do get a “not found” error when clicking on http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/pain-part-ii/ but when I go to your site and do some digging, I found “pain part II here: http://leatriceasher.wordpress.com/published-articles/article/
I think the reason is that you moved the article, or renamed it or something after Google had crawled your site, and the link Google has is dead. The “2007/09/15/pain-part-ii” would indicate a post on 9/15/07 with the name “pain part II” and you do not have a “post” with that name, it has been moved to a “page” instead.
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Hi SacredPath,
I just checked the site and Pain Part II is still there under the heading “Published Articles”. I actually have not moved that article. I put both published articles up the same day. Does your reply still stand with this info.? If so, should I just wait a few weeks and see if google returns to norm?
Thanks so much!
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Oops,
I think I understand what you are saying. I created a Pain Part ii, realized the error and changed it to Pain Part II. Okay! Now my question still stands, will google get it right in time?
More thanks
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As I said, the link you provided indicates that there was originally a “post” titled pain part II which you published on 9/15/2007. That “post” no longer exists, there is only one post on your blog now and it is titled “welcome.” It appears that you moved “pain part II” to a page.
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No it doesn’t have anything to do with renaming it, it has to do with the fact that you moved the original post titled pain part ii, to a static page called “articles”.
I can’t find it right now, but there is a forum entry or a FAQ that explains the difference between pages and posts. I’ll find it and post it for you.
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Glad you found it. The problem is after you published the pain part ii post, Google crawled your site and then you moved the post to a static page, which changed the link to pain part ii. Since pain part ii no longer existed as a “post” then the link led nowhere and the 404 error comes up.
Anytime you move things around after they have been published, or delete or rename posts or pages, you run the risk of having broken links in the search engines.
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OK, I think I understand now what happened but will this eventually be rectified on google search or do I need to now do something more?
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Eventually it will, but the time it takes will depend on Google. There are a couple things I moved around a couple months ago that Google still lists and I can still view the pre-moved stuff using the “cached” link under the Google listing.
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