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.%E2%80%9d breaking the URL in wordpress
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My wordpress URL is breaking and there are 5000 not found urls in webmaster due to some code being added
%E2%80%9d. This code stands for double quotation marks - "
Now the question is, where has my site gone wrong? I will tell you the changes which i have made
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Deleted a Vbulletin forum - Half of the errors are due to the forum being deleted directly
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Upgraded to Wordpress 3.3 (crawl errors did not show on the same day. Much later)
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Upgraded to Blue host pro (crawl errors did not show on the same day. Much later)
These are some of the speculations. But nonetheless i have no idea why this is happening. To give further hints, the Home page URL is being added to the original URL.
http://www.marketing91.com/article/http://www.marketing91.com
http://www.marketing91.com/article/http://www.wrodpress.org
So these are a list of problems i am facing in URL. Now i have no idea why this is happening. I can account for the deletion of a vbulletin forum. But that accounts only for half of the crawl errors. So any replies or answers??
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So,thing else, i noticed in your site. you have 90+ pages with 2 canonical tags, here is an example.
this will not be helping
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It must be the root of the problem as the offending links have "linksalpha.com" in them.
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Dear Sha, I have now deleted the Ypast plugin for google analytics and have directly inserted the analytics code just before the /head section. Lets c. I think we will get to know the results in 2 days as webmaster takes 2 days to sort things out. But thanks for the answer.
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Thanks a lot. I have deactivated the linksalpha plugin. It is a social network sharing plugin. I m ok with no social sharing if it just stops this problem.
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I believe this is your problem, this plugin for WordPress.
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Hi Hitesh,
Are you by any chance using the Google Analytics plugin for Wordpress from Yoast?
Your problem sounds quite similar to that described by Joe in this recent Q&A thread
After a great deal of investigation, Joe reported that he was using this plugin and this was a known issue.
If you can rule out the plugin first, then we can investigate further.
Hope that helps,
Sha
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I can see your problem when i do the crawl, when i look at the page I can not see the offending links in the code.
So we can say it happaning dynamicaly. Try disabling addons. I have seen simullar urls in wordpress sites i have crawled.
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