Hi,
There have been consistent 404s showing up in Google Webmasters. (Lots of them).
Not sure how these are being generated. Because the links it’s showing are not even in the source code.
May be the theme dynamically generates these?
Here is the a screenshot. Except for the first link all others are generated from the same page. (only in this screenshot)
If you guys want the link to the website it can be shared but can I share it privately? If yes then how? Thanks.
This is common issue if you installed the “demo content” then later went back and deleted it after Google had indexed all those pages. Might not be your issue, but that happens quite a bit 🙂
Thanks for the reply.
No, there was no demo content on the site. The site already had it’s own content when we changed to Newspaper.
Besides even the demo content won’t have numbers at the end of URLs (most probably)
Hi,
Please check this without any plugins except of Visual Composer, clear cache and re-save your permalinks. Maybe the permalinks are affected by a plugin that you use.
Also please check if you have added a custom code to your page, that may add the numbers to the links. For example it could be an ad code, if you use different then adsense.
Thanks!
As an fyi, those look like category numbers and post ID numbers, hence the
yoursite/123/1234
yoursite/[catid]/[postid]
where first numbers might be category ID, and second number would be post ID.
So, if your permalinks had been set that way, or if you are using nay kind of sharing tool which used/uses the IDs as some kind of shortcodes, that is how you’d end up with those URLs.
Or, if you had the permalinks set that way somehow for any period of time.
The theme does not change your permalink structure or generate those kinds of URLs.
Just some anecdotal info on what those URLS “mean” structurally. 🙂
Thanks for replies guys. Here is little bit background that I did not share before because I thought this may not be the reason of these links because the Newspaper theme has been on our site for weeks.
In August we had a premium theme from Themeforest called Pinpress. That theme has messed up code. It created over 20,000 404s in Google Webmasters. They acknowledged that their theme did that. We gave up on them because they fixed some of the code but then more of their code had similar problems. They kept saying it’s an honest mistake.
We changed to Newspaper in September. So, I thought they should no longer appear. We ran some broken link checkers e.g. Link Checker, Website Auditor and W3C Link Checkers. All of those numbered permalinks do not show up in the source code anymore. On the previous theme they did show up on all of these link checkers.
But I am not sure how Google finds them because source code does not have them (on the older theme we could see these numbered broken links). I have seen Google cached versions of pages and they also show the new theme (Newspaper).
Our sitemap also lists all the correct URLs without numbers.
Now this link shows up in the source code and it is a 404
http://domainxxxxxxxx/wp-content/themes/Newspaper-child/style.css This file does exist but all the link checkers show it as 404. Any solution for this 404?
Hi,
Do you use child theme? Maybe added a code there?
Please send an email at contact@tagdiv.com provide more details and also wp-admin access so we can take a closer look. Also paste a link to this topic so we can know who you are and what your issue is.
Thanks!
