Z-GrimV Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Hi, I'm getting the below Pages not found when checking the back office > stats. Not sure where the below derives from and wondering how to resolve this. I would like to have no Pages Not Found. PAGE | REFERRER | COUNT /page-not-found | -- | 329 /page-not-found | www.littlebadges.com/admin******/index.php | 1 /page-not-found | www.littlebadges.com/page-not-found | 2 Can anyone advise on how to resolve this? Current version PrestaShop™ 1.4.6. Cheers, Z-GrimV Can anyone advise on how to resolve this? Current version PrestaShop™ 1.4.6. Cheers, Z-GrimV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phrasespot Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 There may be nothing to resolve/fix. You cannot do anything for bad requests to your shop. E.g. I may a make request to http://www.littlebad...--qxyz----.html and it will be recorded as a page not found in the stats. Badly formatted/non-existent requests are normal (badly written crawlers/robots/scrapers/, mistyped links from other sites etc.) If that is not what you mean post again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-GrimV Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 Ah, thanks for some added clarity. My main question is should I worry about these Pages_not_found? I don't want lots of links out there aiming at pages that don't exist. I used other e-commerce software before such as zen cart and cube cart and I so notice some links still exist in internet searches based on those old installs. Could this also be generating links to pages not found? Cheers, Z-grimV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phrasespot Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 My main question is should I worry about these Pages_not_found?Depends, if a not-found response is returned instead of a resource, i.e. something that should be there cannot be found, then yes. Otherwise no. I don't want lots of links out there aiming at pages that don't exist. There is absolutely nothing you can do about most of those. Say some spammer populates a junk blog filled with ads by scraping material from other sites. His crappy crawler scraped you site but parsed the links badly. Now there is a blog post out there pointing to non-existent/bad URLs so each visitor to that blog is generating a 404 on your server. I used other e-commerce software before ...so notice some links still exist in internet searches.... That is a different issue and starting to deal with it starts pre-migration. What you do depends on your setup. Methods of dealing with each of those outdated links differ (e.g. redirects, URL removal requests etc). In any case, as the time passes outdated links become less significant. Could this also be generating links to pages not found? Yes, and you can determine if that is the case from the request generating the page-not-found response. Check your server logs for more detailed information. You will see what was requested and possibly the location of link anchor. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-GrimV Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 Thanks for the feedback. For the time being I have enough info to mark this one as solved. Cheers, Z-GrimV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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