Hi,
In my Google Webmaster Tools account, there are a lot of crawl 404 errors for non-existent
pages. It appears that it will request a page that does not exist (with &redlink=1),
get a 200 status, of course, and the "create" page, and then somehow they derive
a link to the same url but without the &redlink or &edit parameters (probably from
the menu links on the page), which they then try to crawl and receive 404.
Does anyone know how to deal with this so that the google crawler do this?
It looks like google first discovers the redlinks mostly from a previous spam page which
was subsequently deleted. But, once google sees it the first time, then remember it for
quite some time.
Thanks,Al