404 error – what happened?

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    Hi everyone,

    I hope you can help me with these 404 log screens.
    I am a total newbie to this topic and am just learning by doing…
    However right now, practically live, I can see several 404 errors plopping up (see screenshots: https://ibb.co/Pr9zFsr
    https://ibb.co/t8vXszL).

    What are these? Is this spam? Can I ignore these and just delete them?
    (I know this is not your topic, but is there anything to avoid errors like these?)

    Thanks a lot,
    Stephanie

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    These are not actual 404 errors that would affect your SEO since they represent the interaction of your site with the server and search engine bots.
    You can safely ignore these errors.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Hi Jeremy,

    thanks a lot – I am quite relieved. However just out of curiosity: what is happening there?

    Cheers,
    Stephanie

    Hello,

    Thank you for the follow-up.

    Please note that we only report the 404s. We do not have information on how or why they are generated. From your screenshot, it seems that we have determined that these are just bots crawling your site and searching for resources that don’t exist, which returned 404 errors.

    If you encounter links in the 404 Monitor that should exist, you can fix these errors by redirecting them to a related page on your website:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-404-errors/

    Or, you can add them to the exclusion list at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > 404 Monitor > Exclude Paths

    I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need further assistance.

    Hi Reinelle,

    yes, thanks a lot for your qucik help!

    Best regards,
    Stephanie

    Anas
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    We are glad we could address your concern. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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