Strange - Search Console page indexing "../Detected" as 404
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Anyone seen this lately?
All of a sudden Google Search Console is insisting in Page indexing that there is a 404 for a page that has never existed on our client's site:
https://........com.au/Detected
We've noticed this across a number of sites, precisely in this way with a capitalised "/Detected"
To me it looks like something spammy is being submitted to the SERPs (somehow) and Google is trying to index that and then getting a 404.
Naturally MOZ isn't picking it up, cause the page simply never existed - it's just happening in Search Console
It comes and it goes in the 404 alerts in Console and is really annoying. I reckon it started happening late 2022.
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Thanks @Chbaca - I reckon it's some kind of spam bot (?) because it is precisely written in this way ".../Detected" and is across multiple sites that have no relation to one another and are in some cases on different servers altogether. I have a sneaking suspicion there is some kind of spammy bot that tries to look for the presence of a malicious page and somehow this is being submitted to index.
Anyway, thanks for noting it, we'll just do 301 if it keeps cropping up.
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@DanielDL - might it be a url that someone requested indexing for either recently or in the past? We have seen some 404 being detected because some requested indexing by url. If it was requested a 301 should fix the 404 error in GSC.
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