Hi,
After update new version of newspaper theme in google webmaster appeare “soft 404 error”
1. http://www.pocanews.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper
2. http://www.pocanews.com/wp-content/themes/Newspaper/
how do i fix this issue please help me as soon as possible
Thanks in Advance.
Just ignore it. Mark it as fixed and move on with your life.
This happens sometimes during site updates if Google “reads” the links to certain things and WP redirects to a location it shouldn’t. Very common with theme updates and WP updates during the shift in and out of “maintenance mode.”
Thanks ChrisS
For your kind help and reply.
Always throws me too when I see that in my webmaster tools. 🙂
They really should have option to “ignore this error in future” — but it keeps happening couple times a year.
Once in a blue moon you might also get an error like that from a robot probing the folder to see if the directory is readable, but same issue. if you get one every once in awhile not a big deal.
when i face this problem i see some video how to solve this problem some video says its affect your ranking so i beware about this thing because many people says different thing about this.
after that i decide to contact tagdiv for proper solution and you give me lifetime solution for this once again thank you very much.
There really is no permanent solution unless you block Google from accessing your site during updates, as this happens during the update process.
In other words, nothing on your site normally links to that location, and it’s NOT part of your XML sitemap. So, it doesn’t hurt to have that temporary 404 error.
In my case I mark as fixed, then I don’t see it again for 6 months.
If you are getting the error “all the time” — that’s not normal.
However you do not want a readable page at the /newspaper/ location — as that is not a public part of the site. You can try to create a hack on your site to give a different kind of error like “not authorized” (e.g., “401 error”).
Anyway — just some food for thought. Not a theme related issue, so you might want to google it.
