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i recently added a custom 404 error page on my server and now when i check the logs i see a considerable number of Agents hitting it.
Is this normal? i mean when i surf the site its navigates all right..i dont have any commented links or anything..could it be cached urls in the search engines trying to get to the old pages?
Thank you.
Have you recently changed your site structure? If you change page names or directories then links you have out on the web may be pointing to old pages and the search engines will have old urls that they are trying to spider.
Make sure your server is returning the correct 404-Not Found status when it serves your custom 404 page. A very common configuration error can cause your server to return a 200-OK status, in which case, the user-agent thinks it is a "real page."
Try accessing a page that you know not to exist using the Server Headers checker [webmasterworld.com], and verify the correct response code when your custom 404 page is served.
Jim
there a problem with the 404 custom page the servers headers give me a 302 status..sometimes 200 status
I noticed that say a file is XYZ.asp
if i request XYZ.htm i get 200 status
if i request XYZQRT.asp i get a 302 status
I have set the 404 page as a URL with a relative path in the Int. Services Manager.
'appreciate the replies
