Google Sitemaps in Webmaster Tools

Not found (51)

[lizardlips]

While reviewing my Web Crawl results in Google webmaster tools I find that I have Not found (51) 404 urls. A lot of these urls I have never had on our site and some are very old. How can I clean this up? Or is it a waste of time?

Thanks

[funandgames]

Just clean up your sitemap.xml file and FTP it to the root your site. Everything else will take care of itself.

[OutdoorMan]

Are you sure that some of the 404's are URLs that you have never had on your site?

I also have some Not found (x) in Webmaster Tools -- but nearly all of these URLs have been non-existing on my website since august/september 2006.

It's probably some sort of 'ghost-URLs' that Google have found in earlier cache-versions and do check out from time to time.

I don't see that you can do anything about it at all, other than to give Google time to erase the memory of these URLs.

[travelin cat]

We have about 100 of these "not found" pages show up in our webmaster tools. They change regularly.

None of these pages ever existed.

I have heard that these may show up because Google found somebody pointing to these non-existent pages and then spidered them and found nothing

[BillyS]

I have these too - about a dozen right now. Links pointing to my pages with sloppy coding for example:

http:/www.mysite.tld/my-page/...

For some reason, I've got a lot of the "..." links pointing to me all the time. They're certainly not from our site.