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    • ReSEOlve
      ReSEOlve last edited by

      Hi

      I am getting these show up in WMT crawl error any help would be very much appreciated

      | ?escaped_fragment=Meditation-find-peace-within/csso/55991bd90cf2efdf74ec3f60 | 404 | 12/5/15 |
      | | 2 | mobile/?escaped_fragment= | 404 | 10/26/15 |
      | | 3 | ?escaped_fragment=Tips-for-a-balanced-lifestyle/csso/1 | 404 | 12/1/15 |
      | | 4 | ?escaped_fragment=My-favorite-yoga-spot/csso/5598e2130cf2585ebcde3b9a | 404 | 12/1/15 |
      | | 5 | ?escaped_fragment=blog/c19s6 | 404 | 11/29/15 |
      | | 6 | ?escaped_fragment=blog/c19s6/Tag/yoga | 404 | 11/30/15 |
      | | 7 | ?escaped_fragment=Inhale-exhale-and-once-again/csso/2 | 404 | 11/27/15 |
      | | 8 | ?escaped_fragment=classes/covl | 404 | 10/29/15 |
      | | 9 | m/?escaped_fragment= | 404 | 10/26/15 |
      | | 10 | ?escaped_fragment=blog/c19s6/Page/1 | 404 | 11/30/15 |

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        • Martijn_Scheijbeler
          Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

          Ah yes, my guess would be that you're running on WordPress. They have some AJAX behaviour in their set-up which can caused some Google Search Console errors from time to time. So far they're not doing any harm in most cases. We have them as well and we're ignoring them for now as it seems to be just normal WordPress behaviour like millions of other sites have as well.

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          • Mobilio
            Mobilio last edited by

            Seems as related to AJAX crawler escaped fragment.

            You should see why bot is trying to crawl normal pages with deprecated method. Please see "incoming links" to this 404 in SearchConsole to see where is root of this problem and fix it.

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