{"id":1323,"date":"2008-08-19T22:44:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2008\/08\/19\/geoff-potential-guests-being-led-astray\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T22:44:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T21:44:47","slug":"geoff-potential-guests-being-led-astray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"Geoff potential guests being led astray."},"content":{"rendered":"

I get an enormous number of 404 errors on this site (269 in last 10 hours), they stem mainly from when I migrated the old blogger posts to wordpress. On blogger the post url’s ended with .html when I transferred them to WordPress the .html was stripped off \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So now if you click on an old google search term it comes up with File not Found (404) error. Not good for ones rankings.<\/p>\n

I am using John Godleys<\/a> redirection<\/a> plugin but to make full use of it I need to learn how to create regular expressions<\/a>, so far with no luck! (anyone out there willing to help, please). I have created a help topic on the regex advice forum and also asked John Godley for advice too.<\/p>\n

Today Google came to the rescue with a neat 404 webpage<\/a> that is customised to your site if you use Google Webmaster Tools<\/a>. So now you get this useful little page:-<\/p>\n

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But I really need to get the hang of \\b(https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2.*?)\\.\\w+\/(?!\\w) and its ilk plus how to add them to a .htaccess<\/a> file….<\/a><\/p>\n

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I get an enormous number of 404 errors on this site (269 in last 10 hours), they stem mainly from when I migrated the old blogger posts to wordpress. On blogger the post url’s ended with .html when I transferred them to WordPress the .html was stripped off \ud83d\ude41 So now if you click on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[89,193,197,198,238],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-products","tag-blogger","tag-google","tag-google-search","tag-google-webmaster-tools","tag-john-godley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}