My site is a little over a week old and my Google Webmaster Tools account shows over 900 URLs not found in the crawl errors report. I've updated the feed once and am wondering if some of the products were removed in the updated feeds.
How do I handle redirects of this many invalid or not found pages?
Thanks,
Bruce
Hi Bruce,
If you think it is likely that up to 900 products have been removed since submitting your sitemap then it's generally nothing to worry about - the script does return 404 correctly for products that no longer exist, and once the sitemap is re-requested by Google (which will no longer contain the removed product URLs) then the warnings should be cleared.
However, 900 does sound like a lot of products to have changed in just over a week, so I would like to double-check that everything is working correctly for you - could you perhaps email me a link to your site and I'll check the sitemap and corresponding URLs on your site for you...
Cheers,
David.