Odd URL errors upon crawl
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Hi,
I see this in Google Webmasters, and am now also seeing it here...when a crawl is performed on my site, I get many 500 server error codes for URLs that I don't believe exist. It's as if it sees a normal URL but adds this to it: %3Cdiv%20id=
It's like this for hundreds of URLs.
Good URL that actually exists
http://www.ffr-dsi.com/food-retailing/supplies/
URL that causes error and I have no idea why
http://www.ffr-dsi.com/food-retailing/supplies/%3Cdiv%20id=
Thanks!
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Thanks Mike. I ran the page through the validator, and it came up with quite a few errors. I'm not sure how severe they are, but I will be sending them to my web vendor. I appreciate the help.
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Like Mike said, it looks like a coding issue.
It looks like /food-retailing/supplies/food-preparation and /food-retailing/supplies/safety-janitorial are both linking to /food-retailing/supplies/
You can use validator.w3.org to check for some coding errors.
A quick glance at things looks like your /food-preparation page has an open tag in the code lines between 1423-1431:
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Page:
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1
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[]( RIGHT HERE YOU ARE MISSING CODE<br /> <br /> <div id= "Page 2")
[That was just a quick glance.
Hope it helps.
Mike]( RIGHT HERE YOU ARE MISSING CODE<br /> <br /> <div id= "Page 2")
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I have a crazy Russian coder who does all of that for me so I'm honestly not 100% sure how to find these errors more easily in order to correct them.
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Thanks for the fast reply Mike. I don't suppose there is a tool or plugin that could hunt it down that you know of?
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Just looking at the URL you posted, it looks like an open DIV tag or an incorrectly closed link in the source causing an html encoding issue.
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