Soft 404

hello?

Hi Nemrah,

it seems for some reason your theme uses a file that was removed from version 2.0.0; can you please try it with default wordpress theme?

Users are able to add to wishlist the products?

Let us know

Thanks for your patience ??

The plugin works great. No problems with that.

its only that google picks up the add to wishlist links. And that links is seen as a 404 link, and thats bad for seo

Hi,
I’m also getting 404 errors in webmaster tools.

e.g.

[sitename]/page/2/?add_to_wishlist=1030
[sitename]/page/2/?add_to_wishlist=1027
[sitename]/page/2/?add_to_wishlist=814
[sitename]/page/2/?add_to_wishlist=818

Thanks!

I forgot to mention. I’m using version 2.0.4 on top of wordpress 4.1.1 and woocommerce 2.3.6. Thanks!

@nemrah

Are you using the 2.0.x version of the plugin?

We checked, and no reference to yith-wcwl-ajax.php is outputed by plugin anymore (neither for backward compatibility). Maybe your theme prints this url somewhere in the page?

@taurustm

Wishlist adds only the query string you see at the end of the url; the url without “?add_to_wishlist=xxxx” redirects you to a 404?

Thanks for your patience again ??

Hello,
I must sign up for this topic, too.
I have noticed the following errors in mass amounts on my store:
403 and 404s with the following stucture (these are considered real urls by the googlebots!) and unfortunately,even though I have specified the url parametre to be non-crawable, it’s still showing them to me as errors:
– /some-category/?add_to_wishlist=..
-/some-product/?add_to_wishlist=..

– even the following, which is disallowed now by my robot.txt file already, but just for the record:
/wp-content/plugins/yith-woocommerce-wishlist/yith-wcwl-ajax.php?action=add_to_wishlist&add_to_wishlist=..

I guess it’s also my mistake I didn’t disallow the plugins folder earlier, but this mistakes of indexed plugins from the plugin folder are ONLY for the yith plugin and they are hundreds for me.

I have noticed the problem quite late, I must admit. It’s not unsolvable but if you leave it it may cause huge pagerank losses in time. So if this is caused by the plugin it should be at least documented I think so that measure are taken with these parametres in advance and not after seeing the 1k errors in GWT.

@juddi22

really sorry for you issues.

I want to investigate more on you errors; can you please tell me what version of wishlist plugin are you using, and on what theme?

As stated before, all reference to /wp-content/plugins/yith-woocommerce-wishlist/yith-wcwl-ajax.php were removed since version 2.0.0

On the other hand, url as

– /some-category/?add_to_wishlist=..
– /some-product/?add_to_wishlist=..

should not cause a 404 error (product/category page with a querystring, still is product/category page)

Let me know ??

Hi again,
I’m using the latest version on Flatsome premium theme. The webmasters errors were dating Feb and March, so I have have to wait more to see whether they persist. I have always used the latest possible version though. I always update my plugins right away.

Yes, I agree, however, that’s not obviously the case from Google’s point of view. That’s not just for Yith parametre, but also for all others, such as ReplyTo parametre.
The problem with this one is, however, that if you leave it and not explicitly edit the Parametre settings in GWT, the urls start showing up separately in Webmasters as 404s.
The url parametre add_to_wishlist was detected by google in the very beginning. However, I left then the option to let google decide how to handle this parametre.
Now I changed that but unfortunately there were many errors already.

Just for example, here is the list of all other parametres I have, none of them is treated by Google to cause 404. Just the add_to_wishlist one.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/51nz8xplunf915x/url.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xp6vsqi31qyufeo/url2.png?dl=0

I have no clue as to why, honestly.

I have to jump on this thread too. I have 100’s of 404 errors showing up on GoogleWebmaster Tools, for the YITH Compare Plugin.

?orderby=price&action=yith-woocompare-add-product&id=5108&_wpnonce=af2803c539

That is the structure of the error on all YITH plugins.

Will adding something to robots.txt file solve this, please help!

Thanks!

Hey Chris,
I must say it helped me. Just be very careful how you confgure the robot.txt not to disallow important pages. Otherwise, google bots definitely take notice and stop searching through this pages.
Another thing I did for the 404s was to install these 2 plugins, see what will work for you:
404 to Start
Simple 301 Redirects

that’s how I dealed with all 404s in GWT once and for all ??