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Got a good one for you all this time...

For our site, Google Search Console is reporting 436,758 "Page Not Found" errors within the Crawl Error report.

This is an increase of 350,000 errors in just 22 days (on Sept 21 we had 87,000 errors which was essentially consistently at that number for the previous 4 months or more). Then on August 22nd the errors jumped to 140,000, then climbed steadily from the 26th until the 31st reaching 326,000 errors, and then climbed again slowly from Sept 2nd until today's 436K.

Unfortunately I can only see the top 1,000 erroneous URLs in the console, of which they seem to be custom Google tracking URLs my team uses to track our pages.

A few questions:

1. Is there anyway to see the full list of 400K URLs Google is reporting they cannot find?
2. Should we be concerned at all about these? 
3. Any other advice?

thanks in advance!

C

any help?

Hi Moz community!

I’ll try to make this question as easy to understand as possible, but please excuse me if it isn’t clear.

Just joined a new team a few months ago and found out that on some of our most popular pages we use “custom URLs” to track page metrics within Google Analytics. NOTE: I say “custom URLs” because that is the best way for me to describe them.

As an example:

• This page exists to our users: http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Ram_HD/2012/photos-interior/

• But this is the URL we have coded on the page: cars-trucks/used-cars/reviews/2012-Ram-HD/photos-interior/ (within the custom variance script labeled as “var l_tracker=” )

• It is this custom URL that we use within GA to look up metrics about this page.

• This is just one example of many across our site setup to do the same thing

• Here is a second example:

  • Available page to user: http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Cadillac_ATS/2015/
  • Custom “var l_tracker=” /cars-trucks/2015-Cadillac-ATS/overview/

• NOTE: There is a small amount of fear that the above method was implemented years ago as a work-around to a poorly structured URL architecture. Not validated, but that is a question that arose.

Main Questions:

• Is the above implementation a normal and often used method to track pages in GA? (coming from an Omniture company before – this would not be how we handled page level tracking)
• Team members at my current company are divided on this method. Some believe this is not a proper implementation and are concerned that trying to hide these from Google will raise red flags (i.e. fake URLs in general = bad)
• I cannot find any reference to this method anywhere on the InterWebs

-          If method is not normal: Any recommendations on a solution to address this?

Potential Problems?

• GA is currently cataloguing these tracking URLs in the Crawl Error report. Any concerns about this?
• The team wants to hide the URLs in the Robots.txt file, but some team members are concerned this may raise a red flag with Google and hurt us more than help us.

Thank you in advance for any insight and/or advice.

Chris

Hello,

My question relates to Schema.org identification on specific pages within our site.

This may sound very amateurish so please bare with me.

Using the MozBar Chrome plugin and looking withing the Markup tab, the results say that MozBar does NOT find Schema.org markup on our page.

However, going to the Google Structure Data Testing Tool results in the opposite. I see the Schema.org code and the tool seems to verify with no errors.

An example of a page that has Schema.org implemented would be: http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Acura_MDX/

So the final question is: Should I be worried that the MozBar isn't locating the markup? The results in Google SERP seem to reflect the correct code.

thank you!
Chris

Hello,

My question relates to Schema.org identification on specific pages within our site.

This may sound very amateurish so please bare with me.

Using the MozBar Chrome plugin and looking withing the Markup tab, the results say that MozBar does NOT find Schema.org markup on our page.

However, going to the Google Structure Data Testing Tool results in the opposite. I see the Schema.org code and the tool seems to verify with no errors.

An example of a page that has Schema.org implemented would be: http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Acura_MDX/

So the final question is: Should I be worried that the MozBar isn't locating the markup? The results in Google SERP seem to reflect the correct code.

thank you!
Chris