‘/wordpress’ — Google search console — dead links

  • Hi All,
    I’m surprised by some of the errors that Google is alerting me about, since my new WP version of my portfolio site has gone live. It was previously a static site, never a WP one.

    ‘/wordpress’ is showing up in URLs that are dead links in Google search console crawl errors.

    Why is this happening? My live site leaves out /wordpress from its URLs.

    Could it be that my Host configured something when they flipped the domain over to the new site?

    Or should I wait and see if these errors just go away?

    Thanks ??
    John

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Did you perhaps have the site visible to search engines during development?

    Anyhow, check your sitemaps then re-submit them to GWT.

    Thread Starter johnnyivan

    (@johnnyivan)

    Hi Steve,

    Thanks for your time and help.

    The visible/dev explanation seemed like a good one to me too, but no, it was hidden—or at least I thought it was. I could be wrong. Can bots find sites even if they’re not linked to by anything else?

    Here’s the current sitemap/s. No ‘wordpress’ in any of the URLs.

    Maybe the Jetpack sitemap that was generated first included ‘/wordpress’ (for God knows what reason) and even though I since switched to a Yoast generated one and submitted it, it’ll take a while for Google to update itself?

    I’ll do a re-submission once I think it looks correct.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Can bots find sites even if they’re not linked to by anything else?

    You betcha!

    After resubmitting, be patient. It takes Google a while for changes to appear.

    Thread Starter johnnyivan

    (@johnnyivan)

    Oh, ok!
    (you wouldn’t think I’d worked as a designer in web dev for 17 years)

    That’s good to know. I bet the dev site was exposed then.
    Thanks Steve,
    john

    Thread Starter johnnyivan

    (@johnnyivan)

    WEIRD RE-DIRECT
    It’s very strange how some of the pages that Google has crawl errors for, direct to URLs with a missing / in them:

    (…)white.comillustration(…)

    For example, the following sort of URL is listed with a crawl error because it’s from the old site, which is fair enough:

    https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/dredd.shtml
    but when it’s clicked in Search Console, it tries to go to:
    https://johnwhiteillustrator.comdredd.shtml

    Note the missing / after .com

    It’s bizarre. I have no incorrect re-directs like that in my .htaccess file.

    I’ve now created a 301 Redirect from
    https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/dredd.shtml
    to
    the correct new page, and requested removal of both of the following from Google’s index:
    https://johnwhiteillustrator.com/dredd.shtml
    https://johnwhiteillustrator.comdredd.shtml

    I wonder what caused this? Some sort of mis-configuration of the new WordPress site, by me, or my host? If so, I hope it was temporary!

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