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July 23, 2018 at 4:54 pm #221941webdzinerParticipant
Hi,
Does anyone have any ideas why urls are showing up like this in my crawl errors?/name-of-legitimate-post/genesis-sidebar-primary
/category/name-of-legitimate-post/genesis-sidebar-primaryThe urls are all correct except for the genesis-sidebar-primary at the end which is causing a 404 error. Is it safe to create a redirect for these?
https://www.plantbasedcooking.com/recipe/almond-jam-dot-cookies/July 25, 2018 at 10:56 am #221990Victor FontModeratorThis could be a side effect of your minification plugin.
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Have you requested your free website audit yet?July 27, 2018 at 9:05 pm #222063webdzinerParticipantThanks, I'll look into that. Most seem to be referrals from our posts on Google Plus. The page source (on the Google Plus posts) don't have any errors, Google is just reporting them when it does it's crawl.
August 6, 2018 at 4:16 pm #222283webdzinerParticipantHi Victor, can you explain more? We use WP Rocket and MaxCDN. Is it the minification that would cause a problem or combining files? I can turn one off at a time for a day or two and see if I get any more of those genesis sidebar 404s, but I don't get them every day.
When I go to GTMetrix It says my minification can be better (score is F), but the pages are loading pretty quickly, so, I'm okay with the default settings for MaxCDN.
August 7, 2018 at 7:38 am #222299ManelAttMemberHi,
Im using screaming frog for detecting crawl issues, i fond that's the best alternative to perform audit in the right way !August 7, 2018 at 3:15 pm #222305webdzinerParticipantThanks ManelAtt, That looks like a good program and I did download it. However, it will not help with this problem as the 404 errors are coming from an external site (Google Plus) where we have posts.
The Posts themselves look entirely correct when viewing the page source. But for some reason when Google is reporting these links to our site from Google Plus that have /genesis-sidebar-primary added to the end of the url.
We can't figure out why the /genesis-sidebar-primary is being added to the end of the urls. It seems like it must be something in Genesis, no?August 9, 2018 at 2:01 pm #222349AnitaKeymasterThis page structure looks like you still may have demo content inside the site. Check all of your pages and make sure there are no subcategories with the name of genesis-sidebar-primary as well. Check for "nested" categories.
/name-of-legitimate-post/genesis-sidebar-primary /category/name-of-legitimate-post/genesis-sidebar-primary
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August 9, 2018 at 3:00 pm #222351webdzinerParticipantI did have some of the original Foodie Pro demo pages set as Private so the client could refer to them. But we don't need them any longer so I just trashed them. There are no categories or sub-categories from the demo.
Again, these 404 errors are being reported by Google and the referrer is Google Plus. There are not any similar links on our site, but I just noticed that although the links are correct, the incorrect urls with the genesis-sidebar-primary added are in the cdata tags on the Google Plus posts. I'm going to take a closer look at that and report back.
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