I’m seeing an uncommon variety of complaints across the reported 404 errors inside Google Search Console reporting. That is particular to your URLs having /1000 appended to the top of the URL. Google is conscious of the difficulty and is telling us to disregard them for the reason that hyperlinks go to 404 pages.
I used to be capable of replicate it for this website, you possibly can see, Google is displaying 404 error studies for URLs that don’t exist on the location, so it’s correct. However many of those URLs finish in /1000 and tons of SEOs and website homeowners are asking – what’s up with these /1000s.
Here’s what I see:
Google’s John Mueller replied to this situation saying “No must disavow; it is in all probability simply random spam.” He additionally replied on LinkedIn saying, “You possibly can ignore them. 404s are nice.” Google has mentioned 404s are nice previously and that hyperlinks pointing to 404 pages don’t rely anyway.
I noticed the complaints within the feedback right here and there are complaints about this on Reddit, LinkedIn and several other on X.
Who else acquired GSC notifications about 404 errors, the place the URLs finish like “/1000”? I noticed a number of circumstances over a number of domains over the weekend. One other SPAM situation by Google or simply merciless requests?#search engine optimisation #1000 #google #404 #gsc pic.twitter.com/jxPPYtGIV2
— Andor Palau (@andorpalau) January 15, 2024
Hey @JohnMu , are you conscious of all of the URLs ending with /1000 which can be reported as 404-errors within the GSC? We are able to see this throughout a number of Domains (working on WP, AEM, FirstSpirit and so forth.). What´s occurring there?
— Nicolas Sacotte (@nsacotte) January 15, 2024
My Google Search Console exhibits tons of 404 errors for URLs ending in “/1000”, though the unique variations with out “/1000” are working appropriately. Ought to I ignore these errors? @johnmu #SEOCommunity #NeedHelp @glenngabe #web optimization Thanks pic.twitter.com/kKcjfXZ00K
— Tahir Liaqat (@tahirliaqat01) January 15, 2024
Within the feedback, somebody posted an instance to websites linking to /1000:
After I checked a few of the referring pages that hyperlink to my /1000 URLs that 404, they’re principally redirects that result in porn and malware websites.
Have you ever seen this?
Discussion board dialogue at Reddit.
