404 errors on page urls that don't even exist
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I am getting a lot of errors on pages with urls that aren't even legit. Like for example:
/videos/support/index.asp
No such path even exists like this on the site. I have a /videos and /support off root but no place on the site is there any reference or file at location /videos/support/index.asp so I get a lot of 404 duplicate page errors. This is just one example of several. How do I stop this?
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I think, maybe correct me if I am wrong. It seems like the crawl is getting confused with relative links and I have noticed some issues with this in the iis7 server that GoDaddy provides or maybe it's just a iis7 thing all together. So it's almost like it's taking links from a side menu in one part of the site and trying to apply them to other parts of the site. Sounds crazy right, but absolute links seems to have cleared it up.
Sound like anything you've heard of before?
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Maja
If you'd like to post the URL/share here, I would love to take a look. Also include what 404 URLs are being found etc. If not here in public, feel free to PM me. Whatever you prefer.
You can email the seomoz team at help@seomoz.org, I am sure they'd be able to help you diagnose the problem.
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Then check with SEOMoz directly -their team is great. I know Google will try to make URLs based on your structure as it searches for content; I have no idea if Moz does the same or if one of their tools may be acting wonky.
So either they are and can confirm it (or give you some other insight) or they are on your site and their crawler found them.
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They are in campaigns from seo moz. I don't believe for a second the links to these urls are inside the web site cuz there are just far too many of them.
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Maja
I am guessing these are coming from the Google Webmaster Console ? If that's the case, click on the detail and see where it's linked from. That will help you diagnose how the bots are able to find these pages in the 1st place.
I hope this helps.
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