How to fix crawl errors

[amythepoet]

Ok, I now have 10 crawl errors, when I resubmitted my latest sitemap.

Each crawl error returns a 404, file not found

These are old urls, I changed them with a redirect 301 command to a valid url

and then I resubmitted the new and improved sitemap

Is that aok?

[g1smd]

It sounds OK.

Verify it is OK by using the Live HTTP Headers for Firefox extension.

[amythepoet]

what is Live HTTP Headers for Firefox extension? I am on a Mac

[goodroi]

It lets you check out the page header information which is not normally shown to the public. This way you can see if a 200 status code is being delivered or if a 301 redirect to a 404 error code is being returned.

You can also use this webpage to see the headers that are returned for your webpage: [rexswain.com...]

[amythepoet]

i fixed all 27 of them, I'm g etting good at this, thank you, Ill keep readin'

[amythepoet]

Thank you for the web to see the headers, now I have a problem here

let's see that one of my headers looks like this:

<li><a·title="Widget Contraptions"·href="widgetcontrap.html">Wedding·(LF)
(HT,HT,HT,HT)contrapations</a></li>(LF)

My question is, should not the "a title" be the same as href="widgetcontraptions"?

thank you

[goodroi]

The href is the url you are going to, the title is for usability/seo purposes. Most people don't even bother to include the title and just use the anchor text by itself.

[amythepoet]

ok then I'm good to go, thanks