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(Entry was posted by Kenneth Villegas on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 10/01/2013).

Google detected a 404 error to some of our product pages that are not errors.

Hello Guys! I have a question regarding Google Webmaster Tools.. I wonder why Google detected a 404 error to some of our product pages even if when you click the links, it actually live and and it`s not error.. This is what Google sent to us via Google Webmaster Tools.. "Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that return a 404 (Page Not Found) error. Investigating these errors and fixing them where appropriate ensures that Google can successfully crawl your site`s pages. " And here`s a sample URL that they found Error 
c-mbdotcodotuk/index.php/promo/49/pens-writing/pens-from-1-00
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Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Dave Elliott: I'd have a look at page speed or see if there is something that is preventing the page from fully loading or anything like that.

    Either that or i'd decide not to care because google is wrong and the page does exist.
  • Mark Steenbakkers: In your robots.txt you declare that /cache should not be indexed. This could be a problem if your SEF URLs are stored in the cache. ;
  • Kenneth Villegas: thanks Mark!
  • Luke Ciciliano: Did you test the page with Webmaster Tools' "fetch as Google" function +Kenneth Villegas? Also, look at the report and see how many times the site was unreachable. It may be a one time isolated incident and, in such cases, Google will tend to disregard the error. ;

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