404 disaster
Hello
I'm with mybb for the past 5-6 years and my forum is pretty large. In 1.6 installation, I was using Google SEO plugin for 404, Meta and Sitemap functions. URL feature was not enabled.
After the upgrade, I re-enabled the Google SEO plugin (with the version change trick), but at that time, the Google url option was also enabled without my notice, and I left it running for 1 day. Then I corrected and went back the default page naming style, and completely disabled the Google SEO plugin, because when I enable it, It enables the url feature, even after disabling it in the options page and in .htaccess.
From that point, I am getting thousands of 404 errors in the Google Webmaster tools. It shows
myforum.com/thread-5142-post-67830.html as a 404 error page and that page is linked from a similar url style page, which is also non existant.
At first I thought it is normal, because google might have crawled the forum with the new url style. but still, after 4 months, it detects hundreds of that pages everyday, and all are linked from non existent pages.
I wonder how this happens ? any clues ?
I'm with mybb for the past 5-6 years and my forum is pretty large. In 1.6 installation, I was using Google SEO plugin for 404, Meta and Sitemap functions. URL feature was not enabled.
After the upgrade, I re-enabled the Google SEO plugin (with the version change trick), but at that time, the Google url option was also enabled without my notice, and I left it running for 1 day. Then I corrected and went back the default page naming style, and completely disabled the Google SEO plugin, because when I enable it, It enables the url feature, even after disabling it in the options page and in .htaccess.
From that point, I am getting thousands of 404 errors in the Google Webmaster tools. It shows
myforum.com/thread-5142-post-67830.html as a 404 error page and that page is linked from a similar url style page, which is also non existant.
At first I thought it is normal, because google might have crawled the forum with the new url style. but still, after 4 months, it detects hundreds of that pages everyday, and all are linked from non existent pages.
I wonder how this happens ? any clues ?
