404 Error

dennis123 Level 1

September 5, 2015, 8:06 am

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Does having 404 error pages on my site negatively affect my rankings?

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josephinek1

josephinek1

Yes, It affects your ranking.
It is an error message that appears when a webpage cannot be found or has been removed.

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youngluck

youngluck

It will affects your ranking. So fix those 404 errors.

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Topseoservice

Topseoservice

Definitely! Not only it affects your ranking but it creates a bad impression for the users as well.

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patco444

patco444

Yes, of course. You need to take care of them and try solving those '404' problems! ;)

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dragonhunter95

dragonhunter95

yes it affects your rank, Just try to make soon as possible.

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richardstevens

richardstevens

404 errors are a normal part of the web.

They are expected. They are preferred over other errors. They are dealt with.

And they DO NOT affect on how your other content-filled pages perform in the search engine rankings.

From Do 404s Hurt My Site at Google Webmasters Central blog:

Q: Do the 404 errors reported in Webmaster Tools affect my site’s ranking?

A: 404s are a perfectly normal part of the web; the Internet is always changing, new content is born, old content dies, and when it dies it (ideally) returns a 404 HTTP response code.

Search engines are aware of this; we have 404 errors on our own sites, as you can see above, and we find them all over the web. In fact, we actually prefer that, when you get rid of a page on your site, you make sure that it returns a proper 404 or 410 response code (rather than a “soft 404”).

…The fact that some URLs on your site no longer exist / return 404s does not affect how your site’s other URLs (the ones that return 200 (Successful)) perform in our search results.

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jaysh4922

jaysh4922

Error 404 means that the server could not find the web page...it is called also HTTP standard response code,the meaning of that is server unable to connect with user..

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anirban09P

anirban09P

404 is a frequently-seen status code that tells a Web user that a requested page is "Not found." 404 and other status codes are part of the Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), written in 1992 by the Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. He took many of the status codes from the earlier Internet protocol for transferring files, the File Transfer Protocol ( FTP .)

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