For Businesses

What a 404 flood actually does to your search rankings

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Quick answer A 404 flood — hundreds or thousands of 404 errors generated in a short period — wastes your crawl budget, dilutes your site’s authority signals, and can cause search engines to de-prioritise your healthy pages. The most common causes are bot sweeps, deleted pages with inbound links, and broken redirects. Monitoring your 404 … Read more

How to catch a plugin conflict before your visitors do.

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Quick answer A WordPress plugin conflict happens when two plugins (or a plugin and your theme) interfere with each other — usually after an update. The symptoms range from broken layouts to complete site failure. The fastest way to catch conflicts before visitors do is to monitor plugin status changes automatically and test updates in … Read more