@Jo Ann, I was just thinking about this some and it crossed my mind to grab a dump of the database and search for the word 'forward' to see if it's in there anyplace.
Go into phpmyadmin
Hit the export button
someplace on that page there will be a select list of the databases, choose your WP
down at the bottom is save as file and a Go button.
save it and then use any search tool to look for the word.. like notepad++, or the HTML editor

Well I'm about to give up on trying to fix these links, I can't do it, I've already forwarded the ones that Google is picking up on it's scans and it's still picking them up? I've checked the links to be sure they have been redirected, and they are, yet Google is still picking them up as 404 pages....

I now still have only 16 pages indexed and my 404 errors have gone up by 2 more If I wipe out this Wordpress will it fix it do you think? Or am I stuck now? I'm really not happy with this mess at all, I hate to lose the blog as I was just starting to really get the hang of it, but if it's going to cause me this much trouble it's not worth it. I'm just afraid if I take it all down that I'll still have the problems and now no blog either ....

Any other suggestions? I'll go see if I can get some help or find some posts on Word press tonight too.

I don't think you need to take the blog down.. I assume you are running the latest release.
If you send me your database dump(sql file), i will look at it. support(at)onelakesideweb.com

I am curious what eric said about page titles.

404 just means they are not found, which means they must not be there. Good, right.

@Jo Ann,

Have you gone through the Wordpress forums? As I remember from looking at the errors before, they were all wordpress. One thing you might be able to do is temporarily separate your blog from your site. Take out the links on your site that link to your blog (just temporarily) and resubmit google to run your site again and see if that changes the issue. If it doesn't then just reconnect your blog (this way you don't have to get rid of it, while still troubleshooting).

@Dave,

What did you want to know about the title tag?

The only thing I see after running sitemapper on your site is that word press is using non-clean URLs
............com/blog/?p=59&cpage=1
when it would be better as
........com/blog/Right2link,-should-we-fight-for-it?

..............com/blog/?m=20100120&paged=2
better as
.............com/blog/2010-January-20

page about fixing it
http://teamtutorials.com/web-developmen … -wordpress

page on WP about it
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

title tags, I was just curious about your knowledge on the subject and if they look right to you. I see that coffeecup has ( Page title | Site title )

Actually that's my doing on the page links being not so pretty. I had perma links turned on and that's what was causing a lot of it, and is actually what caused most of it because it was setup to take people to a specific bogus category name. In other words it asks what you want your users to see when they go to a post and I put in the %topics% or something like that, and that's what started it all I think. There is no "topics" category but it made it look better that way, unfortunately it doesn't exist and so Google I think got messed up from it.

So I turned it off completely. I can go in and turn it back on and just let it do dates or something I suppose, but I don't think that will fix these links that are currently there.

I'll try to find this database dump file, not sure where to look for it though. I did back up the entire server before I messed with any changes yesterday, and I backed up the database, is that what you mean?

I believe WP automatically generates the title tags from the title of the blog. The title tags seem fine, although you want to do them just a little different for SEO, it still should not effect the problem that Jo Ann is having. The real problem I think is related to how WP generates their links. Every link I click on in WP gives a convoluted address. It's not clear why they do that. In addition, Google is very "standards" oriented so, if they don't like the "non-standards" generation of addresses, then they might just penalize the user for it.

When I run google on my sites - some fairly large as well, I do not get any errors. So I know that it's possible to get no errors, but Jo Ann's situation is crazy - especially because the links that are supposed to be bad (according to google) don't actually exist anymore.

Jo Ann,

Here is a great article I found on SEO and WP. It seems to address some of your issues.

http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/

Btw, Eric, not all those links I have were from WP. There were some pages that weren't, about 10 of them that I redirected that were to directories I never created but may have been from an old theme, or a plugin of sorts. Not from the blog area at all but in the main site. All of them have been redirected, they are working too as redireted (all but one which I'm about to fix right now if I can), but the last scan Google did, which was after my changes, still found them as 404 errors? This is way confusing and starting to piss me off more than I care to admit lol.