How can I remove hundreds of 404 errors in Google Search Console?

  • Resolved aditsupport

    (@aditsupport)


    2 months ago

    Hello Team
    I am using the Events Calendar plugin, and in Google Search Console, I am seeing 870 404 errors and 37 soft 404 errors, most of which are from old Events Calendar pages that no longer exist.
    Examples: domain.com/events/list/?tribe-bar-date=2021-11-26 , domain.com/events/2018-08-01/
    How can I get these pages to stop being crawled by Google’s crawler? Is there a way to delete them?

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  • Plugin Support tristan083

    (@tristan083)

    Hi @aditsupport ,

    Thank you for reaching out.

    It looks like you’re raising something related to SEO and hard/soft 404s here. As such, may I recommend going through the following knowledgebase article, which helps provide insights to the situation.

    HTTP 404 Errors and SEO

    Thread Starter aditsupport

    (@aditsupport)

    Hello @tristan083,
    How can I stop auto-generated 404 events like domain.com/events/2018-08-01/? Any solutions?

    Plugin Support Darian

    (@d0153)

    Hi @aditsupport

    We have a knoweldgebase article that will allow you to stop this. However, I’m not sure how to do that with Day view URLs.

    Let me check with the team about this one, and I’ll update you as soon as I know more.

    Plugin Support Darian

    (@d0153)

    Hi @aditsupport

    One of my colleagues suggested the following change to your robot.txt so that it will ignore the Day view of your calendar.

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /events/*-*-*/

    Let me know how it goes.

    Plugin Support Darian

    (@d0153)

    Hi there,

    It seems like this thread has been quiet for a bit, so we’ll go ahead and mark it as resolved. However, if any further questions or concerns come up, please don’t hesitate to start a new thread.

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