[SOLVED] URL errors showing up in Google (404 Not found)

[generalexperts]

In Google webmaster tools I have 24 URL's that are not found. 404 errors. I am seeing this occurs if you go to my site for example and type in www.mydomain.com/category and then click on the "brands" link at the top (fyi this link has been renamed from the manufacturing block). Does anyone know what is going on here? Would there be a manual way to redirect this so it doesn't have a 404 error?

 

Thanks for your help. Below is a screen shot of what I'm seeing in Webmaster tools.

 

 

Edited November 17, 2014 by generalexperts (see edit history)

[PascalVG]

Hi GE, did you change from non Friendly URL to Friendly URL?

 

Can you temporarily turn off all advanced parameters->optimization options, like caching, ccc, (and turn on force compile of smarty on the same page). Then reload the pages again and see if either the URL changed or that it started working with the current ones?

 

If that doesn't help, try one more time to turn off Friendly URL, save reload front page, turn on friendly URL, save, reload front page. From there see if the problem-page still has this problem.

 

If nothing helps, you could add some code to the .htaccess file to redirect to the correct URL, but it shouldn't occur in the first place, so let's first try to find out what goes wrong...

 

To redirect in htaccess, see some example here:

https://support.tigertech.net/redirect-url

 

My 2 cents,

pascal.

[generalexperts]

I have kept friendly URL's enabled (hasn't changed). I am unable to replicate the problem. Yesterday it was doing it every time. I also noticed I have ID's in my URL's and the links that show up in webmaster tools are showing no ID's. So maybe it has something to do with that? What do you think is best to go from here? Turn off friendly URL's, turn it on, and see if the URL errors go away?

 

Thanks!

 

{edit} I have the redirect URL module and asked Presto Changeo if that was from their module. They logged in and verified it is not caused by their module... They said search engines try to crawl pages that don't exist by removing parts of the URL. Their suggestion was to try adding a manual 301 redirect for them on my htaccess or try removing them from google. 

 

I will try removing them from Google first in webmaster tools.

 

[Nov 3] - In Webmaster tools - Not Found errors remains the same. Is this supposed to change immediately or does Google have to recrawl for the errors to go away (after Removing URL's)?

Edited November 3, 2014 by generalexperts (see edit history)

[generalexperts]

This has been solved. 

 

/modules/blocktopmenu_ext.php, (where Manufacturers was changed in Brands)

a preceding '/' was missing

 

Thank you Pascal!