On top of the mysterious 404's that are appearing on my sitemap, 404 Redirect is not working for them properly either.

Installation went through, i added rd add php mambot and published it, and i added the mambot script into the default 404 page.404 Redirect seems to be functioning correctly for urls i try, and on the backend is making logs.

If I type a random url that does not exist, ex: www.newgengamers.com/zzzz 404 redirect takes over as it should. However if i click one of the false 404 links that are appearing in my sitemap, it brings up an error on the browser saying:

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Further proof that those 404's don't exist and shouldn't be appearing in my sitemap. I don't get why Joomap is putting them there, and they only appeared once i installed Joomsef.

I'm not sure why the text '404' is appearing in your sitemap listing.

I think that's a problem related to Artio or Joomap rather than 404 Redirect.

404 Redirect only manages redirections for invalid URLs

If I was you, I'd add a custom conditional check to the Joomap PHP code to check that the link text is not '404' before outputting to the page.

I tried to download the component to see where to put the check but the download link is not working at present. Maybe you can have a look at it yourself.

good luck!

that sounds like a possible solution but i'm not sure what the exact script i would need to enter is, if anyone has any suggestions please let me know

Hello again,

I've run a few SEO diagnosis tools on my site, and several of them are saying:
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404 Check: FAILED
You are not returning a 404 error on non-existent pages. This means google could cache a large number of useless, duplicate pages on your site. Example:
www.YourSite.com/afgahsdfjkahsdfjkasdhfjaksdhfasdjf.html
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...That doesn't sound good. Is there cause to be worried?
-Tom

Hi Tom,

If you want to check how google is responding to your 404 pages, check 404 redirect's 404 log.

Google has and IP range around 66.249.66.*

(I can't recall the exact range but you can google it!)

You can see the redirects, searches etc... there.

Furthermore, the next version of 404 redirect will return a 301 moved permanently header first rather than a straight redirect.

It should be out later this week<br><br>Post edited by: davidwhthomas, at: 2007/01/28 20:51

How about returning 404 when the component redirects to &quot;search&quot;? Or am I talking nonsense? :)