How to fix 404 error in my website?

[krishnanayak]

How to fix 404 error in my website? please someone give easy way or idea to fix 404 error in my website.

[Kate Evans]

I suggest you to have a look at this article http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/404error.htm and you will find a list of tips which can help you to fix 404 errors in a website. Hope this information will be interesting for you.

[a4nuser]

You’ll see URLs like this:

/404.html?page=/wordpress/plugin/local-seo/&from=https://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/
This tells you two things:

The 404 URL was /wordpress/plugin/local-seo/ (it lacks an s after plugin)
It was linked to from our WordPress SEO article.
Using this info, you can fix the 404 and actually also go into the article and fix the link.

As you can see from the above screenshot, we actually get 404s too. We break things all the time because our website is a constant work in progress. I don’t think anyone can totally prevent creating 404 errors on his or her site. Making sure that you notice it when you’re breaking things is a good way of not looking stupid for too long though.

[centigon]

Firstly you must know there're many reasons for a 404 error. That means if you don't give us your site's link or the link to the 404 page, we can't help you find out the matter. The only thing that we can provide you is the basic information as everyone mention above.

[RH-Calvin]

A 404 error is an HTTP status code that means that the page you were trying to reach on a website couldn't be found on their server. The 404 Not Found error might appear for several reasons even though no real issue exists, so sometimes a simple refresh will often load the page you were looking for.

[a4nuser]

Step 1: Find Every Error
Step 2: Fix The Error
Step 3: Ongoing Monitoring

[a4nuser]

Measuring bot 404 error pages

Next to 404s for visitors, search engines will also encounter 404s on your site that can be quite different.You can find the 404s that search engine spiders encounter by logging into their respective Webmaster Tools programs. There are three webmaster tools programs that can give you indexation reports, in which they tell you which 404s they encountered:

Bing Webmaster Tools under Reports & Data → Crawl Information
Google Search Console under Crawl → Crawl Errors
Yandex Webmaster under Indexing → Excluded Pages → HTTP Status: Not Found (404)
One of the weird things you’ll find if you’re looking into those Webmaster Tools programs is that search engine spiders can encounter 404s that normal users would never get to. This is because a search spider will crawl just about anything on most sites, so even links that are hidden will be followed.

If you’re serious about website maintenance, you might want to find these 404s before search engines encounter them. In that case, spidering your site with a tool like Xenu or (our favorite) Screaming Frog will give you a lot of insight. These tools are built specifically to behave just like search engine spiders and will thus help you find a lot of issues.

[brknny]

Go through this article yoast.com/404-error-pages-checking/

[TomClarke]

 I hope that this article http://www.ehow.com/how_6578415_fix-http-404-error.html will help you to cope with your problem! Good luck! let me know about it!

[kathyclark]

Firstly you need to identify any 404 pages on your blog. The best place to start is with the Google Webmaster tool.

Now do one of these things-
1. Redirect it to the home page
2. Remove it through
3. Set a custom 404 error page
4. 301 Redirect the link to the most relevant post/article or category.
5. You can also manually de-index such pages from the web index using the webmaster removal tool

404 pages are not SEO enemies, but it’s not a good idea to have a long list of 404 pages on your Website. So If you have lots of 404 errors, it is best to re-direct whenever possible or to block bots from accessing these pages using Robots.txt, and remove them using the Google Webmaster tool.