How does Google find /feed/ at the end of all pages on my site?

[Vivamedia]

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?

[evolvingSEO]

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

[Vivamedia]

Thanks for your support

[Aran_Smithson]

I'm all out of ideas then!

set up the 301 and see what happens

Sorry I couldn't be of more help!

[Vivamedia]

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

It´s Yoast plugin BTW.

[Aran_Smithson]

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.

[Vivamedia]

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/

[Aran_Smithson]

could you share the url?

[Vivamedia]

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.

[Aran_Smithson]

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.