SEO

I've done everything you guys recommended here but on my Google Webmaster Tool Web Crawl result, I am getting like 2000 broken links, as follows:

http://xxx.xxx/forums/1004-post1.html 404 (Not found)Help Help Aug 7, 2008

Why Google still tries to find link like forums/1004-post1.html anyway?

My Google indexed pages actually decreased a little bit over the past week or so.

I am on vBSEO 3.2 with sitemap generator.

What am I missing?

those are showpost links.

do you have showpost enabled? if not, its right to 404, and it will eventually drop out of the index.

I disabled it a while ago because you suggested me do so.

then that's good. google is recognizing that these links don't exist anymore, and will eventually drop out of the index altogether (which is what you want to happen).

Do you think this is the reason google keeps testing "/noexist_7097098.html" files against my site? I changed the 404's in a tutorial and added all your vBSEO custom rewrites (from the wiki site)... I hope this drops even though google insists on testing my 404 pages every 5 minutes.

it's fine. it will test pages multiple times before it drops a 404 from its index.