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    • Vivamedia
      Vivamedia last edited by

      Hi!

      In Google Webmaster Tools I find *.../feed/ as a 404 page in crawl errors. The problem is that none of these pages exist and they have no inbound links (except the start page).

      FYI, it´s a wordpress site.

      Example:

      • www.mysite.com/subpage1/feed/
      • www.mysite.com/subpage2/feed/
      • www.mysite.com/subpage3/feed/
      • etc

      Does Google search for /feed/ by default or why do I keep getting these 404´s every day?

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      • evolvingSEO
        evolvingSEO last edited by

        Hi Tommy

        You can do as Aran suggests - a redirect would be fine for feeds you don't want being crawled.

        But more importantly, you may want to consider not indexing subpages (like this one: http://www.mediaanalys.se/blogg/page/2/) - you can make this setting in Yoast.

        Let us know!

        -Dan

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        • Vivamedia
          Vivamedia @Vivamedia last edited by

          Thanks for your support 😃

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          • Aran_Smithson
            Aran_Smithson @Vivamedia last edited by

            I'm all out of ideas then!

            set up the 301 and see what happens 😉

            Sorry I couldn't be of more help!

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            • Vivamedia
              Vivamedia @Vivamedia last edited by

              I´ve checked the sitemap, you find it at ....se/sitemap_index.xml

              It´s Yoast plugin BTW.

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              • Aran_Smithson
                Aran_Smithson @Vivamedia last edited by

                I see your point... cant find reference to /feed/ however i also cannot find your sitemap.xml to confirm their are no references in there are their an external links pointing to kontakt/feed?

                I'd consider adding a 301 rule into the htaccess to redirect traffic from the offending 404 pages, just in case.

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                • Vivamedia
                  Vivamedia @Vivamedia last edited by

                  Sure, notice that it´s in swedish 😃

                  Example of one page that Google report 404 on is our contact page with /feed/ at the end,

                  http://www.mediaanalys.se/kontakt/   +   feed/

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                  • Aran_Smithson
                    Aran_Smithson @Vivamedia last edited by

                    could you share the url?

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                    • Vivamedia
                      Vivamedia @Aran_Smithson last edited by

                      Hi Aran, thanks for your time!

                      Meta and sitemaps are clear. I also checked the source code for the specific pages that Google have in their reports, but no link.

                      I´ve also googled about the automatic feed functions in WP but no problem there either.

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                      • Aran_Smithson
                        Aran_Smithson last edited by

                        By default I think most wordpress blogs have a feed accessible via the urls you describe (http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/)

                        I'm pretty sure there specified somewhere link in sitemaps or even in meta.

                        Have you disabled your feeds?

                        Seeing your URL would help.

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