{"id":5590,"date":"2016-02-08T16:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/techs\/?p=5590"},"modified":"2016-02-08T16:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:00:39","slug":"increase-in-404-pages-on-google-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/mythemes\/increase-in-404-pages-on-google-bots.html","title":{"rendered":"Increase In 404 Pages On&#8230; Google Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<link href=\"\/idogjs\/icss\/font-awesome\/css\/ifotorama.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"><script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.11.3\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/idogjs\/ijs\/ifotorama.js\"><\/script>\n<p><em>I received multiple &#8220;Increase in 404 pages on &#8216;mywebsite'&#8221; messages from Google Search Console after I&#8217;ve created new responsive theme for my blogs. I had no idea how to fix, tired of searching the answer without any solutions. I decided to check all my style.css and sure enough, the ones I used on the reported blogs had some errors. The errors were from commenting the unused part NOT fully due to many comment tag &#8220;\/*&#8221; &#8220;*\/&#8221;, some canceled out each others. When I removed all the comment tags, there isn&#8217;t any more report 404. 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