: Google Search Console: 404 errors on existing pages There is a few years old small website with very few pages (~5), which were indexed and ranked by Google. A few days ago 4 of those pages
There is a few years old small website with very few pages (~5), which were indexed and ranked by Google. A few days ago 4 of those pages disappeared from SERPs and Search Console gives me 404 Not Found errors despite the fact that the pages are up and running. I didn't do any changes in header's crawler related meta tags and robot.txt neither.
Tried to submit a sitemap.xml but it gives me 404 error for that too.
What causes this problem?
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If Google is reporting these pages as a 404 (and this has been confirmed with the "Fetch as Google" tool in Google Search Console), yet they appear to be perfectly accessible and return a 200 OK when visiting the site then check your .htaccess file for any suspicious code that might be redirecting the Googlebot.
If a hacker is able to inject code into .htaccess then they can very quickly destroy a sites ranking. Unfortunately, if they've been able to edit .htaccess then this might not be the only thing they have done.
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