Why am I getting 400 client errors on pages that work?

[moesian]

Hi,

I just done the initial crawl on y domain and I sem to have 80 400 client errors. However when I visit the urls the pages are loading fine. Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can resolve the problem?

[moesian]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for you response. I've resolved the issue now. I started by doing a crawl test which gave me the same number of 400 urls but revealed that they contained "../../../"   in them which seems to be something annoying the cms I'm using creates (these weren't being displayed like this in the campaign error view). I've corrected these urls and done a crawl and I seem to be clear of 400s.

[AlanMosley]

Rob is correct, there is little we can do to help without a url

[RobertFisher]

Moesian

Without an example url, it is hard to properly diagnose the problem. One thing I had to get past when I was first using SEOmoz, was that often the errors were not really on urls that would be on the sitemap per se. With CMS like WP or Joomla, sometimes we will get errors around the plugins, themes, widgets, and apps. An example of one is:

ExampleSite.info/wp-content/themes/EarthlyTouch/js/idtabs.js

So, make sure you don't just look at the start of the url, but cut and paste it from the error report to be sure. If you know it is a page that is resolving correctly, I would suggest putting in a ticket for Support (click on help at top right of this page) or email help@SEOmoz.org.