Timeline for Unknown 404 Urls in Google Search Console / Webmastertools
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 10:17 | vote | accept | Stephan | ||
| Mar 2, 2017 at 10:02 | comment | added | Chris Rutherfurd | As for the motivation some badly authored SEO sites are written in such a way as to imply that links on site A can benefit from the ranking of site B if they link to site B. Now this is completely inaccurate but people sometimes still do it. I have tried searching for the links in Google to see if they may come up to indicate what pages have those links on them but they aren't showing up. The best thing you can do, in fact the only thing you can really do is just ignore them, they are not affecting your site and there is no real way to prevent it. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 10:00 | comment | added | Chris Rutherfurd |
As part of the sitemap standard it needs to be in the root of the pages you are trying to add. In other words a sitemap located at example.com/sitemap.xml can list any pages and sub directories within the example.com domain but a sitemap at example.com/images/sitemap.xml can only list pages under the images directory and not anything under say example.com/catalog. Due to this restriction someone cant add a sitemap to their own site listing pages on your domain. These links have to exist as A links within pages on the net for Google to have picked them up.
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| Mar 2, 2017 at 9:56 | comment | added | Stephan | But what is the motivation for this kind of third party linking and how does it happen ? There must be a page existing which includes the link to my page ? Can I submit URLs in a sitemap for a diffrent domain without confirmation ? | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 9:41 | history | answered | Chris Rutherfurd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |