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#1117 – Spurious URLS for /figures"

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Tuesday, 06 October 2015 04:16 UTC

bwmoore22

I have a number interactive graphics that I have included in articles using markup like the following:

<iframe src="/images/interactive/two_product_price_optimization.html" width="1024" height="768">Your browser does not support the <code><iframe></code> tag; you can view the visualization <a href="https://www.xxxx.com/images/interactive/two_product_price_optimization.html">here</a>.</iframe>

When viewing the article, everything is fine.

For each and every one of these, Google Search Console reports a "Not found" crawl error for

tag/images/interactive......

the src="/image/interactive..." is the form of the URL in the article.

What is introducing this URL when Google crawls my site and how do I fix my site, my .htaccess or my robots.txt to prevent these crawl errors...it is a pain to go in and add redirects for every single one.

For what it is worth, the best example article for the problem is

https://www.xxxx.com/Open-Source-Software/examples-of-interactive-graphics

Tuesday, 06 October 2015 10:55 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

1 - It's not because you have crawling errors in google SC that you have a to do a redirect. You do redirects only if there is a reason to redirect to a new page, with similar content as the old page for instance.
Having a 404 is perfectly valid if a page is not available.

2 - To be honest, I don't really understand your question, so let me reformulate what I understood: Google SC shows some crawling errors for URLs starting with

tag/images/interactive...

(with no leading slash)

and you are surprised about it because you don't see those URLs inside your site page?

Rgds

Wednesday, 07 October 2015 19:19 UTC

bwmoore22

That is correct. The URL does not (and should not) occur in my site page. I don't know why Google thinks that this URL should exist.

Thursday, 08 October 2015 07:12 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

OK, we're on the same base now.

1 - Do you see any of those /tag/images/... URLS in the URL Manager (not in the 404 manager, I do mean in the URL Manager, where URL transformed by sh404SEF are stored).

2 - What's the history of the site? I mean, when did it open, when did you install sh404SEF?

Rgds

Thursday, 08 October 2015 20:09 UTC

bwmoore22

1 - Do you see any of those /tag/images/... URLS in the URL Manager (not in the 404 manager, I do mean in the URL Manager, where URL transformed by sh404SEF are stored).
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There are no entries for "tag/images/interactive..." in the URL Manager. The only "tag" entries are of the form "tag/15" and "tag/15-amortization"; there are two for each of the tags that I have defined.

2 - What's the history of the site? I mean, when did it open, when did you install sh404SEF?
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June 2013 - Created (by me...first time web master, but long-time programmer). Started on Joomla 3x, upgraded as new maintenance available. Plugins are Akeeba Backup Pro, Admin Tools Pro, for a period JBetolo (disabled since fall of 2014 or earlier), Google Authorship (now disabled).

February 2015 - Installed sh404SEF to fix duplicate URL problem in Google Search Console. Didn't take site offline and took several days to completely figure out, so number of duplicates actually got worse for a period of time.

April 2015 - Switched to JCE. First articles referencing Google Trends using HTML of form <iframe src="http://google.com/trends....">

September 2015 - Installed JEvents, CMC MailChimp, and JCH-Optimize. Put first article using interactive graphics with HTML of form <iframe src="/images/interactive/graph.html"></iframe> This construct caused Google crawl errors of the form "tag/images/interactive"

Friday, 09 October 2015 07:40 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

OK, what I think is as follow:

- as those URLs are not in the UTL manager, they simply are not created by sh404SEF. In other words, I don't think they actually exists on your site.
- the most likely explanation is that Google finds them in trying to explore your site. It's very common for instance that they feed a search module with words to try find new pages on a site. We also see a lot of "fake" URLs when their bot execute javascript and try to build URLs to execute ajax requests.
- The iframe is something that always caused problems to Google, or rather that they didn't bother too much about.

To be sure those URLS don't exists on your site (even though sh404SEF don't create them, there might be created by other extensions or Joomla), what you might want to try is use an online sitemap maker (not a Joomla extension, they don't show all URLs) to crawl your site and report all of your links. There's a good one at auditmypc.com (though it's java so browsers now avoid running it), but there are some more.

Rgds

Saturday, 24 October 2015 05:34 UTC

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