I have posted the same message below at Google Comunity but have had no resolution to the problem and found out about here you might be able to solve the problem details below
I keep getting unsual links google keeps finding, i cant find them with xenu, my crawler cant find them, but in webmaster tools at google > diagnostics > crawl errors I keep getting these errors with my url in front of the com, they dont exist .com/%1F .com/%1Fn .com/%1F&=%1FC%23%1F=%23%1Fa/%1Fa/%1F%5E Is this normal? a bug? someone submitting bogus urls to google(this i think is the problem)? if its the latter is it not my sitemap it sould be keeping a record of?
I have removed my sitemap and re-added it, but only for more different variations, i have also gone though every script and every page to detect lower case format contact-us.php to which should be Contact-Us.html(does not exist) each time i delete the site map i get good ranks after resubmitting then something different will appear lower case something and prevesios errors are not there all new ones, i have no dead links & valid html that feeds css to serveral browers for my site to be viewed by most top browsers its all in php with mod rewrite.
There is also your feed back button that asks how you rate the tool, i like your tools but if the diagnostics had where the bogus link came from, like was it from a page that would make it a top tool, otherwise not much use except to tell u got a problem.
Any kind of suggestions or feed back would really be appreaciated
We have a similar problem - hundreds of crawl (Not Found) errors for links that are not listed in any of our sitemap indexes nor are they placed on any of our pages.
I have perused the posts in this group made in the past. Some of these posts have alluded to the problem we are discussing, however, I did not find a satisfactory response. May I request someone from the Google team to intervene?
These days, incredibly enough, we are getting more traffic from Yahoo and MSN search than Google search!
oceaniana wrote: > I keep getting these errors with my url in front of the com, they dont > exist > .com/%1F > .com/%1Fn > .com/%1F&=%1FC%23%1F=%23%1Fa/%1Fa/%1F%5E > Is this normal? a bug? someone submitting bogus urls to google(this i > think is the problem)? if its the latter is it not my sitemap it sould > be keeping a record of?
I got a few errors like it as well, but I quickly found why. (I describe you what was my problem.) where I get all these (%1FC %23 etc..) all these are '&' '?' and things like that generated from dynamic pages. within the pages I manage the URLs are generated and '&' is used instead of '&' these are thinks that you should change.. at least that's what improved in my case. cheers, M.
I did go though all of this from the below url to convert it .com/%1F&=%1FC%23%1F=%23%1Fa/%1Fa/%1F%5E
.com/_&=_C$_=$_a/_a/_^
No scripts run at home directory level No mod rewrite need at home direectory level only for the extensions php to html
I do beleive either it is submitted urls or a webmaster displaying these on a page and that is where google gets them from or maybe someone else has a suggestion or solution
oceaniana wrote: > I do beleive either it is submitted urls or a webmaster displaying > these on a page and that is where google gets them from or maybe > someone else has a suggestion or solution
The exact same thing is happening to me as well, and I'm about to start a thread it to get more exposure to this ever-growing problem. NONE of my pages are dynamic. I just logged in to my area and yet again, even more 404's or "URL's not found" that NEVER EXISTED.
I've been using all SE's to try and find where some webpage was linking to these bogus pages, and out of many dozens I haven't found a single one. I think the Gbot is again doing something wrong.
It is definatly something google(engine) has a problem with.
Is there any reps from google in the forum, to confirm this problem? Or at least able to resond to give any kind of insight as to the best approach to rectifying this problem?
Is this particular error, a part of your ranking structure to penalise websites?
I am still reasearching this furthure, but am having problems with google dropping my sitemap at the moment. Will retry in 48 hours time
This is still a unresolved issue
Any kind of suggestions or feed back would really be appreaciated