Intractable, long-standing Crawl Errors …

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  danwalter · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 4:07 pm

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  Due to reckless revising over the years, I have more than 80 “404” crawl errors on my site, which I assume is why my traffic has plummeted. Webmaster Tool report looks like this:

  http://collateral-damage.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=10523
  404 (Not found) 3 pages Oct 8, 2011
  http://collateral-damage.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=8822
  404 (Not found) 5 pages Oct 4, 2011
  http://collateral-damage.net/introduction/front/chapter-eighteen/nineteen/twenty/twenty-one/twenty-eight/twenty-five/twenty-six/
  404 (Not found) 5 pages Oct 3, 2011
  http://collateral-damage.net/introduction/front/chapte-one/chapter-two/chapter-three/chapter-four/chapter-five/chapter-eight/
  404 (Not found) 4 pages Oct 2, 2011

  … Ad nauseum.

  Most of these pages are irretrievable or out of my control. Do I have to start all over?
  Blog url: http://adventuresincardiology.wordpress.com/

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  evarlese · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 4:22 pm

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  To delete pages and files from Google search results and cache, please follow these steps:

  1. Set up Google Webmaster Tools with your blog:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/

  2. Request removal of contents by following these instructions:
  http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/easier-url-removals-for-site-owners.html

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  danwalter · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 4:27 pm

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  Thanks for the reply, but I have been doing that for a few months — and the errors always resurface or the request is denied…

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  designsimply · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 9:48 pm

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  Contacting Google directly is your best bet for help. We don’t have access to update the Google search results from our side.

  Note that if there are established links out on the web, then that could be a reason some links keep coming back into the crawl report. You really can’t control that completely from the blog itself. Your best option really is to keep using the Google Webmaster Tools and Google removal request tool that they have provided.

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  danwalter · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 11:16 pm

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  Thank you.