Site Crawl 4xx Errors?

[mostcg]

Hello!

When I check our website's critical crawler issues with Moz Site Crawler, I'm seeing over 1000 pages with a 4xx error.

All of the pages that are showing to have a 4xx error appear to be the brand and product pages we have on our website, but with /URL at the end of each permalink.

For example, we have a page on our site for a brand called Davinci. The URL is https://kannakart.com/davinci/. In the site crawler, I'm seeing the 4xx for this URL: https://kannakart.com/davinci/URL.

Could this be a plugin on our site that is generating these URLs? If they're going to be an issue, I'd like to remove them. However, I'm not sure exactly where to begin.

Thanks in advance for the help,

-Andrew

[mostcg]

Paul,

Makes perfect sense. Thank you for the clear answer and explanation!

[ThompsonPaul]

You have a defective link coded for the FAQ link in your site's footer, Andrew. It's currently coded as

[Which then gets parsed as a relative link. This means the link gets parsed as www.example.com/currentpageurl/URL

Because that link is in the sitewide footer, it means every page is generating that link as a link to itself with the /URL added to the end. Which you're seeing detected as all those 404s.

This is very important to fix not only because the FAQ link is broken in the footer, but you've doubled the number of pages of the site for the search crawlers, meaning they're wasting time following thousands of useless links instead of focusing on real pages.

So fortunately it's a quick fix - find that link in your footer template and correct it.

Make sense?

Paul](URL)