I have used Google's Webmaster tools for several years and really like
the progress they have accomplished.
I do however have one issue that has been ongoing for over 2 years
with no resolve.
That is fake generated web crawl errors, i.e. when checking my site
under "Diagnostics", "Web Crawl" under the "Not Found" tab I
continually have fake/ non existent or deliberate attempts made to
tarnish my site's reputation by other sites erroneously linking in to
pages that have and never will exist on my site.
Could a member of Google's staff please explain if any preventative
measures are available to stop this from happening or if plans in the
future include preventing them?
From my understanding, so long as I don't link to bad neighborhoods my
site will not be penalized, yet I'm not 100% sure about that and these
are targeted malicious attacks from the URL's that these errors stem
from.
I believe they should be blocked or heavily penalized.
> I have used Google's Webmaster tools for several years and really like
> the progress they have accomplished.
> I do however have one issue that has been ongoing for over 2 years
> with no resolve.
> That is fake generated web crawl errors, i.e. when checking my site
> under "Diagnostics", "Web Crawl" under the "Not Found" tab I
> continually have fake/ non existent or deliberate attempts made to
> tarnish my site's reputation by other sites erroneously linking in to
> pages that have and never will exist on my site.
> Could a member of Google's staff please explain if any preventative
> measures are available to stop this from happening or if plans in the
> future include preventing them?
> From my understanding, so long as I don't link to bad neighborhoods my
> site will not be penalized, yet I'm not 100% sure about that and these
> are targeted malicious attacks from the URL's that these errors stem
> from.
> I believe they should be blocked or heavily penalized.
I some how doubt that these particular links could ever help even at
best - LOL
Due to the nature of the link /xxx-movies/index.html
I probably just made a few more by adding them on this forum,
The suggestion I was attempting to make is that surely there must be a
way to prevent these Fake Webcrawl errors from displaying in my
webmaster tools even via a manual remove from report button or the
likes.
Slightly of topic is that those pages have never existed in any shape
or form on my website and it would have taken someone else time to
link in such a fashion.
I really can't see what their point of creating those links was, as
surely they will be penalized for linking to non-existing pages, but
it also seems like an deliberate effort was made to make my site look
bad by showing links to xxx,cheap web hosting and I have also seen
motorola links etc in the past.
Wait - there are 2 different problems, I didn't notice at first. Sorry
about it, but I am at work and can't jump to visit sites so easily, so
I missed that.
1) You see incoming links but the pages where those links are
supposed to be present don't have links to your site at all. This is
where I say it would be in cached copies of those pages. Those sites
if you look carefully are "designed" to hold spam and ads. They add
random links on a continual basis to add some surface credibility to
their ultra-spammy pages. Gogolebot happend to crawl and index some
of those pages at a moment where they had links to your site, even if
said links are for pages that don't exist. No matter.
2) You have external links for pages you don't have and have never
had. The question here is: do these links return 404 or 410? If they
do, don't worry about them. If they don't then you need to fix your
server response.
So you found those links in your list of 404s - this is good and
nothing to worry about. Yes, I know it's kind of insulting, but it's
no problem at all. The server responds correctly with 404 (410 would
be better), that's what counts.
> I some how doubt that these particular links could ever help even at
> best - LOL
> Due to the nature of the link /xxx-movies/index.html
> I probably just made a few more by adding them on this forum,
> The suggestion I was attempting to make is that surely there must be a
> way to prevent these Fake Webcrawl errors from displaying in my
> webmaster tools even via a manual remove from report button or the
> likes.
> Slightly of topic is that those pages have never existed in any shape
> or form on my website and it would have taken someone else time to
> link in such a fashion.
> I really can't see what their point of creating those links was, as
> surely they will be penalized for linking to non-existing pages, but
> it also seems like an deliberate effort was made to make my site look
> bad by showing links to xxx,cheap web hosting and I have also seen
> motorola links etc in the past.
Trust me, thsose sites are what I call fly-by-night mock directories.
They are completely autmated sites. Nobody adds links liek that by
had, they are generated from a list of domains and a list of would-be-
pages. They don't target any site specifically, they just use any
domains to prop they garbage.
> I some how doubt that these particular links could ever help even at
> best - LOL
> Due to the nature of the link /xxx-movies/index.html
> I probably just made a few more by adding them on this forum,
> The suggestion I was attempting to make is that surely there must be a
> way to prevent these Fake Webcrawl errors from displaying in my
> webmaster tools even via a manual remove from report button or the
> likes.
> Slightly of topic is that those pages have never existed in any shape
> or form on my website and it would have taken someone else time to
> link in such a fashion.
> I really can't see what their point of creating those links was, as
> surely they will be penalized for linking to non-existing pages, but
> it also seems like an deliberate effort was made to make my site look
> bad by showing links to xxx,cheap web hosting and I have also seen
> motorola links etc in the past.
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