404 and redirect errors in sitemaps

[Simon Lloyd]

Hi i have just checked my Google webmaster tools and find that i have thousands of errors, there are 700 404 errors which definately are not good for rankings.

Please find attached ALL my errors downloaded from google.

Regards,
Simon

EDIT i cannot upload the csv's and i cannot upload a 63kb zip file! so you can download the zip from here http://www.thecodecage.com/thecodecage.zip

[kamilkurczak]

I analyzed yours files and:
1. urls like:

http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/ga/general-discussion/208020-test-post-vbet-3-a.html,404 (Not found),1 pages,10/8/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/ga/members-excel-vba-programming/208021-final-vbet-test-post.html,404 (Not found),1 pages,10/8/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/da/members-excel-vba-programming/208021-final-vbet-test-post.html,404 (Not found),1 pages,10/8/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/da/members-excel-vba-programming/208022-test-visual-basic-applications-tag.html,404 (Not found),1 pages,10/8/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/de/general-discussion/208018-another-thread-message.html,404 (Not found),1 pages,10/8/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/de/general-discussion/208020-test-post-vbet-3-a.html,404 (Not found),1 pages,10/8/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/de/members-excel-vba-programming/208021-final-vbet-test-post.html,404 (Not found),1 pages,10/8/10

no problem. As you see that are urls to our test threads. You deleted this threads, so there are a 404 error (failed link)

2. urls like (from web_crawl_not_found...):

http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/excel-archives/87094-*expression*-how-find-surrounded-string.html,Redirect error,unavailable,10/8/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/fa/members-document-properties-formatting/195966-when-you-save-document-read-only-how-can-you-restrict-printin.html,Redirect error,unavailable,10/6/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/fa/members-excel-vba-programming/197812-form-tabbing.html,Redirect error,unavailable,10/7/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/fi/excel-archives/108819-formula-auto-calculate-based-other-variables.html,Redirect error,unavailable,10/6/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/fi/members-excel-miscellaneous/168337-if.html,Redirect error,unavailable,10/5/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/fr/excel-archives/112782-click-option-button-2x-row.html,Redirect error,unavailable,10/6/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/fr/members-access-database-functions/113436-delete-table.html,Redirect error,unavailable,10/8/10

it is working. no problem. As you remember I worked on your site with .htaccess. (you had a good redirect but not translated - then it does not translated the link. now it works) look on a date

3. urls like:

http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/blog,404 (Not found),16 pages,10/5/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/hesk,404 (Not found),10 pages,10/5/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/register.html,404 (Not found),16 pages,10/5/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/webhosting,404 (Not found),16 pages,10/5/10

As you know these pages are not translated (like hesk etc.) so you should ignored these pages by vBET.
please go to admincp->vBET->Ignore URLs and write the description.

In general, these are old links and everything works. There is no need to worry about that.

[kamilkurczak]

In general, these are old links and everything works. There is no need to worry about that. Can I mark this thread solved?

[Simon Lloyd]

So you are telling me if i recreate a sitemap and submit it there will not be any errors?

[kamilkurczak]

should not be.
remember about that:
3. urls like:
Code:

http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/blog,404 (Not found),16 pages,10/5/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/hesk,404 (Not found),10 pages,10/5/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/register.html,404 (Not found),16 pages,10/5/10
http://www.thecodecage.com/vi/webhosting,404 (Not found),16 pages,10/5/10

As you know these pages are not translated (like hesk etc.) so you should ignored these pages by vBET.
please go to admincp->vBET->Ignore URLs and write the description.

[Simon Lloyd]

in the description for ignore i have entered:
http://www.thecodecage.com/blog
http://www.thecodecage.com/hesk
http://www.thecodecage.com/register.html
http://www.thecodecage.com/webhosting

[Simon Lloyd]

in that case Kamil, than you very much for your help, you may mark this solved

[kamilkurczak]

Thanks for confirmation.