Timeline for Google Indexing Tons of Non-Existent URLs
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| Mar 24, 2022 at 18:52 | comment | added | Austin Wile | Thanks, a little late but this is the correct choice. I ended up looking through the Apache logs and noticed that what was happening is the server was responding with 301 errors for bad links IF it was an http:// URL. It was returning 404 as expected for https:// URLs. What was happening is the server simply auto-redirected non-encrypted traffic to the https:// equivalent using a 301 before returning the 404. That's why Google cancelled the AdWords campaigns. So I just disabled all http:// traffic by closing port 80 on the server and it fixed everything. Good answer and thank you! | |
| Mar 24, 2022 at 18:49 | vote | accept | Austin Wile | ||
| Mar 20, 2022 at 5:15 | history | answered | Luis Alberto Barandiaran | CC BY-SA 4.0 |