Strange links and crawling errors

  • Resolved jackennils

    (@jackennilsen)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    Heya people,

    I’m getting very weird 301 crawling errors in Google Webmaster Tools since 21st of March. I have no idea about the reason behind these errors, as they have a very uncommon and nested link structure.

    The website I’m talking about is https://mafia-daily.net/, and one of these strange links looks like this:
    m2story/%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net/m1screenshots/%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net/2010/08/innige-bande-ueber-die-runden-kommen-die-letzten-beiden-videoclips-sind-online/%7C%7Cnone%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net/?attachment_id=8551%7C%7Cnone%7C%7Cnone%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net/category/mafia1/%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net/category/mafia2/%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net/category/mafia3/%7C%7Chttps://mafia-daily.net/category/downloads/

    Seems to be randomly created, consists of different pages, posts, categories and attachments. Every single link part is separated by two pipes || (= %7C).

    The only thing I have changed since the 21st of March was a little tweak in the functions.php of the theme, but I have reverted back to the old version and I’m still getting the errors. Also I’m using the UberMenu Plugin for a few days now, but it’s not creating links like the above.
    I’ve got more than 200 of these errors by the time of writing, getting more every day. Don’t know where Google can find these links, I have absolutely no clue.

    Did someone of you guys see something like this before?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks and happy Easter,
    Nils

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  • Thread Starter jackennils

    (@jackennilsen)

    Why don’t you create your own thread? Your issue has nothing to do with this topic.

    Thread Starter jackennils

    (@jackennilsen)

    Just a quick update on this. Since I have removed this disturbing plugin, there are no new entries in the access.log which contain a “%7C%7C”. Google Webmaster Tools now shows the results from yesterday, so I have to wait until tomorrow to see today’s results. Hopefully the errors are gone.

    I’ll report again tomorrow!

    I already picture your happy smile tomorrow!

    Disclaimer: Not associated with April Fools Day.

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    Thread Starter jackennils

    (@jackennilsen)

    Here’s the update, as promised.

    Crawling errors went down from 200+ to 56. Even though I completely removed the plugin and cleared the cache, Google is still trying to crawl such links. Happened just 5 times today, but still it does for whatever reason. I expect the number of errors to go down to less than 10 by tomorrow. At least I hope so.

    Seems to be solved.

    By the way, I was in contact with the plugin author and he already updated the plugin. Such link chains should not happen again. Anyway, I don’t want to use it again.

    Thanks again bottleneck, you saved me! ??

    Hey. I didn’t know that I saved you because I don’t recall that I took a bullet for you. ?? On a serious note, you are very welcome!

    Thread Starter jackennils

    (@jackennilsen)

    Crawling errors going up to 89 again…

    Why is google still trying to crawl these links even if they do not exist anymore? Very weird!

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