The Site Explorer crawl shows errors for files/folders that do not exist.
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I'm fairly certain there is ultimately something amiss on our server but the Site Explorer report on my website (www.kpmginstitutes.com) is showing thousands of folders that do not exist.
Example: For my "About Us" page (www.kpmginstitutes.com/about-us.aspx), the report shows a link: www.kpmginstitutes.com/rss/industries/404-institute/404-institute/about-us.aspx.
We do have "rss", "industries", "404-institute" folders but they are parallel in the architecture, not sequential as indicated in the error url.
Has anyone else seen these types of error in your Site Explorer reports?
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Hi David - I'm looking at the top pages report and don't see those (but only browsed through a few pages, so they could be further down). I suspect what's happening is some sort of misconstructed redirects or links to those pages. If you use the PRO Web App's crawling functionality, you can create a campaign for kpmginstitutes.com and see not only where those errors happen, but download a CSV and get the sources of the 404s, too.
You might also find this information in Google Webmaster Tools.
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