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Clean Up the Crawl Errors on Your Sites

I was looking at my Google Webmaster Tools account a while back for my blog, and I had an awful number of crawl errors, also known as 404 errors, where there is a file not found on a site.

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In my defense, my blog was started in 2004 and I’ve used multiple platforms over the year, which resulted in many directory setups, file extensions, etc.

At the end of last month, I had over 900 crawl errors on my blog, and I set up a reminder to tackle them. But I have been putting it off for weeks, because it doesn’t look like a particularly fun project.

Then it finally struck me this past weekend – I have to fix this stuff ASAP. I’m voluntarily giving a lousy experience all over the place to my site visitors.

So I figured I’d make it a point to knock out 10 a day until I was done.

I’ve been going through one at a time with the Crawl Errors in Google Webmaster Tools, and creating redirects to fix them with the Redirection plugin.

As I fix and test them, I click “Mark as Fixed” for each error link and make that list smaller.

I’ve been doing more than 10 on a lot of days, and now I’m down to 548 bad links. I think I’ll knock this out by the end of the month.

How about your links – are they all working OK?

The post, Clean Up the Crawl Errors on Your Sites by Shawn Collins, was originally published on the Affiliate Marketing Blog.

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