An error often reported for URLs is
404 : Not Found.
You may get such errors even if your
website has no internal linking errors, and your XML sitemap is 100% correct.
Google follows links from websites all over the internet. Google remembers these links for quite a long time.
In our experience, this means that if
some website at some point in time has linked to a non-existing page at
your website, Google will keep reporting this as an error for a long time.
Examples of how incorrect links to your website can occur on external websites:
- Someone posted and mistyped a link to your website on a forum.
- You posted a link on a website which incorrectly shortened it.
