Old (deleted) URL MAJOR Problem
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)
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.
Okay
Many thanks
Anspress 3a1 and also the version you run here on Anspress.io. i BET it is also happening with the latets official release.