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How does Google Rank “Priority” for “Not Found” errors?
Google lists Not Found Errors in Webmaster Tools as Ranked by Priority, but what is Priority based on?
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Weird URLs being access by Googlebot
Lately I've been seing all sorts of strange URLs show up as errors in my Webmaster tools account, but they're URLs that don't actually exist on my site, nor are linked from the pages that Google ...
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Google Webmasters Tools strange 404 errors referred from same site
Starting about a month ago, I noticed a sudden increase in 404 errors in Webmasters Tools for one of my sites (over 1400 errors so far). All the errors are being referred from my own site to non ...
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Crawl errors “src” in the last in URL
I was looking in the Google Webmaster Tools and realized the following crawl error:
Pages that link to http://mysite.com/articles/my-stub/src/
URL: http://mysite.com/articles/my-stub
I wonder ...
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SEO impact of server errors
Our website is up and running fine but a WordPress plugin is broken (we can't fix it very quickly) so a few hundred pages show server errors.
The pages would load header and page of the page body but ...
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Yandex frequently replaces page names with ampersands
The Yandex spider is a frequent visitor to one of the sites I manage. On occasion it replaces the page name with two ampersands and a space. So if the page is:
/mypage.aspx?param=value
then it ...
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Google Webmaster Tools keeps reporting not finding pages from the old website
About 3 months ago we've completely replaced the content of our domain, practically building up a new website. The sitemap for the new website has been submited to Google Webmaster Tools, the website ...
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GWT: Generate more complete crawl error report
I'm a developer in charge of managing Webmasters and related issues (including correcting crawl errors) for dozens (hundreds, maybe?) of active sites and as part of my duties I create a report of ...
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Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that don't exist
In Google webmaster tools > diagnostics > crawl errors I'm seeing a bunch of errors that link to sub-pages like
/tour/overview/Scripts/ForceDownload.asp
The /tour/overview does exist, but this ...
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How does Google treat unlinked URLs?
In Google Webmaster Tools I've recently noticed several concatenated URLs appearing in the Crawl Errors. On investigation it seems Google is picking up these links from a page that shows a user's ...
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Large increase in 404 hits
We're running a Magento shop and we experienced a significant raise in 404 hits lately, almost 40,000 in one day. Most of the pages are old ones that once existed but don't anymore, and there are some ...
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Weird 404 crawl errors in Google webmaster tools
If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful! We're getting strange domains coming up in Google webmaster tools - they seem to be breeding. When I look where the links are coming from, it's either:
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Can server errors cause major traffic drop from Google?
My web server was down for about 30 min. The next day (30~ hours from the event) I noticed major drop in traffic from Google. The normal traffic to my site is about 2500 unique/day and after the event ...
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What is the difference between Not found and Not followed in Google Webmaster Tool?
In Google Webmaster Tool, under Crawl Error i found 18 Not Found and 16 Not Followed errors. What it means? what's the difference between them?
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How to resolve “Google can't find your site's robots.txt” error?
I've recently found that "Google can't find your site's robots.txt" in crawl errors. When I tried Fetching as Google, I got result "SUCCESS", then I tried looking at crawl errors and it still shows ...
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Google Webmaster Tools - Crawl errors with 500 status code
I will try to explain the situation:
In December 2012 I deployed a website with a sitemap.xml, etc... there were circa 2000 URLs.
After a while I changed something on my website, upgrading my pages ...
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Free standalone crawlers
Are there any free standalone crawlers that I can use apart from Google webmaster to analyze errors?
Something that shows me all 404's, errors etc
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Submitting a sitemap to take care of inherited Google crawler errors
I have an awful lot of Google Crawler errors (1000 or so) after I inherited a site that the previous owner migrated without moving much of their content.
Would generating a map of the current site ...
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404 errors How to deal with a large number of broken internal links for SEO
I have recently updated my website. In fact I have completely rewritten it using
wordpress. It was originally constructed using ASP.
In the process, I have recycled a a large amount of my original ...
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Spiders crawling broken links
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Unknown bot crawling the same broken (HTTP 400) URL over and over again. Different User Agent and different country of origin.
The Problem
It seems at least once a week we're getting a big ...
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Redirect pages to fix crawl errors
Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like www.mysite.com/mypage.html. I want to redirect this pages to the new page www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage.
I tried to do that by ...
