When a certain URL or blog post is returning 404 Error in Blogger then, it means that they are entirely deleted, moved to a new URL or someone reported your content. As a result, blogger team reverted it to draft. First of all don’t panic, most of the times you can still recover your deleted posts. You can recover them through easily though this tutorial.
However, if you are still unable to recover your deleted posts then, there is only one way to remove the 404 Error and that is to redirect it your Homepage. Sometime, your posts are indexed in search engine but due to some mistake or lapses it starts giving 404 errors. Not to keep your visitors away from 404 errors, it is essential to redirect them safely to your home page.
Go to Blogger.com >> Your Site >> Search Preference >> Custom Redirects >> Edit >> New Redirect.
In the first text box, add the URL of a post which is returning 404 error while keep the second box empty. One everything is done Press “Save” and then “Save Changes” buttons to finish the process.
Congratulations: You have successfully fixed Blogger post returning 404 errors by redirecting it to the homepage. You can open the URL and instead of showing not found error it would take you to your homepage.
If you have a lot of 404 Errors on your site, then Instead of moving all not found URLs one-by-one to homepage it would be better to use our 404 to Home Plugin that automatically redirects visitors to the home when they access a not found page. We hope that this article would help you with resolving posts returning 404 errors in Blogger. Did this process work for you? Do you have a better suggestion for us? Please, feel free to leave your suggestions below.
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11 comments
Hi, Nice tut bro,
Actualyl one of my blog have more then 500 404's, Any solution for that?
Yes You can Easily redirect your All 404 Errors to Home using this Plugin.
http://www.mybloggerlab.com/2013/01/how-to-redirect-404-not-found-page-to-home-page-in-blogger.html
I am trying to follow the directions however I keep getting the following error- the source and destination values can not be empty or more then 256 characters and must start with a /- can someone please help me. I can be contacted at silgenovez@gmail.com
You are adding Too long URLs. That might be the reason. Keep in mind you don't need to include your Full URL. For Example If your URL is www.mybloggerlab.com and you want to redirect:
http://www.mybloggerlab.com/p/about_20.html
To
http://www.mybloggerlab.com/p/about.html
Then you will just type "/p/about_20.html" Instead of the Full URL. Hope that answers your question.
hey after i save the Redirect function, in other day the redirection is none or reseted. i don't delete the "Redirect" why ?
That might be a bug. Reset it again! cheers!
how to remove Error 400 and Error 503 please tell me
Thanks
Blogger.com is quite robust service and it doesn't catch a lot of 500 or 400 errors. And on other hand, we cannot control it since the main control is into the hands of Google.com
Cheers
thanks sir it is very good post for me.
I am getting this error 404 at the place of adds and I want to know why in my system adds are not shown
Hi,
In webmaster console under sitemap I get a warning 'When we tested a sample of the URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible to Googlebot due to an HTTP status error. All accessible URLs will still be submitted.'Then under example I get the following warning 'HTTP Error 404'. How will I fix this issue.
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