: Fixed Canonical Link 404's not purging I've been asked to look at our Google Webmaster Tools to fix the "Not Found" links contained within. The first 404 problem I identified was that due to
I've been asked to look at our Google Webmaster Tools to fix the "Not Found" links contained within.
The first 404 problem I identified was that due to our WordPress multi-site environment, the canonical links being generated for all our sub-sites were incorrectly pulling from the parent blog, creating 404s. We have fixed this issue, but over a week later, the "Not Found" tab still lists all of these 404's, some of which were apparently crawled yesterday. I was expecting a severe drop of these errors, since they are no longer present in the code.
Is Google using cached versions of our pages to crawl? How can I help purge these from the list?
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Once Google see's a link to a non-existent page, it will list that page in the 404's until it's removed from GWT. If the link to the bad page continues to exist, it'll be re-added. But it won't be removed simply because the faulty link has been removed from your site.
And yes, this can be a major pain in the butt, especially because GWT only allows you to remove I believe 1000 URLs per day. So if you have a lot of 404 pages, this can take a fair bit of time.
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