Weird, long URLS returning crawl error
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Hi everyone,
I'm getting a crawl error "URL too long" for some really strange urls that I'm not sure where they are being generated from or how to resolve it. It's all with one page, our request info. Here are some examples:
Has anyone seen anything like this before or have an idea of what may be causing it?
Thanks so much!
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@Leonie-Kramer Yes, we are using Wordpress. I can see if changing the slug to not include spaces may help.
@lynnp I noticed that too! Usually our developer doesn't help with technical SEO problems like this, so I was trying to solve it myself
But I will try to see if he can take a look at it.
Thanks to both for your answers!
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HI,
It looks like your 'request info' button is spinning out endless urls, try going to any page and then clicking 'request info' a couple of times. You will see these urls being created. It is probably a relatively simple mistake in the code for the button, your developer should be able to fix it.
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Hi, Are you using a CMS? It can be caused by that? It creates url's with spaces that's why they look so strange. Have you checked this with your webdeveloper?
Here some info about url encoding:
URLs can only be sent over the Internet using the ASCII character-set. Since URLs often contain characters outside the ASCII set, the URL has to be converted into a valid ASCII format. URL encoding replaces unsafe ASCII characters with a "%" followed by two hexadecimal digits. URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign or with %20.
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