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Title: What is "status-not found" in fetch as Google in the Webmaster tool?
Post by: anavarshney on May 18, 2020, 08:38:37 AM
Hello friends,

What is "status-not found" in fetch as Google in the Webmaster tool?
Title: Re: What is "status-not found" in fetch as Google in the Webmaster tool?
Post by: makoo on May 20, 2020, 03:28:18 AM
If you found a message with "status-not found". It means search engine didn't find this page. Please check that page not returning error page (404). If the webpage has not issued 404 page then Ok. But need to check your sitemap.xml also.
Title: Re: What is "status-not found" in fetch as Google in the Webmaster tool?
Post by: SinelogixTechnologies on May 20, 2020, 08:05:07 AM
This is a crawl error which can be cause by following reasons -

You might have deleted pages knowingly or unknowingly.
You have change the pages link.
Google did not crawl properly
It can happen because of server errors
It can happen because of robot.txt failures
How to fix it-

Make a list of not found URL
Decide on which URL you want to redirect to which active page.
Download a plugin in your WordPress website called redirection
And one by one direct your not found links to active pages
Title: Re: What is "status-not found" in fetch as Google in the Webmaster tool?
Post by: vinitha on May 21, 2020, 11:10:17 AM
Google Analytics report showing 404 error pages ... As you can see from the above screenshot, we actually get 404s too. ... There are three webmaster tools programs that can give you indexing reports, in which they tell you