Old (deleted) URL MAJOR Problem

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Today i got several warnings in my Google Admin webmaster, some really strange ones from URLs of Anspress Questions, that have been deleted.

I explain. If a Question is deleted, the URL doesn’t return a 404 but shows the base page with Question listings.

For example:

www.website.com/question/old_url_here

doesn’t return a 404. Actually WHATEVER you put after the /question/ doesn’t return a 404.

So all deleted Questions are NOT deleted from Google search engine because of this. That creates a HUGE problem.

Thanks

 

(same problem here on anspress.io:

https://anspress.io/questions/question/problem-add-answer_hahaha/

doesn’t return a 404)

selected answer

Anspress 3a1 and also the version you run here on Anspress.io. i BET it is also happening with the latets official release.

Will be fixed.

Rahul could you please push a bit to the top of your priorities this problem ? Seems to affect us badly, since i almost always EDIT the user’s title and url for seo purposes.

Many thanks