Title: WordPress generates strange links
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WordPress generates strange links

 *  [WPuser3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpuser3/)
 * (@wpuser3)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-generates-strange-links/)
 * In my Webmaster tools I often see strange 404 errors. For example – “
    tag/nvidia/
   contact-me/” or “tag/official/feed/” or “tag/guide/feed/www.twitter.com” – they
   don’t even make sense.

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 *  [Paweł Knapek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adpawl/)
 * (@adpawl)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-generates-strange-links/#post-2733185)
 * Use [robots.txt](http://www.robotstxt.org/) file to disallow this links.
 * eg.
 *     ```
       User-agent: *
       Allow: /
       Disallow: /wp-admin/
       Disallow: /wp-includes/
       Disallow: /tag/
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [WPuser3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpuser3/)
 * (@wpuser3)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-generates-strange-links/#post-2733238)
 * What about this instead?
 *     ```
       Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
   
       # Google Image
       User-agent: Googlebot-Image
       Disallow:
       Allow: /*
   
       # Google AdSense
       User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
       Disallow:
   
       # digg mirror
       User-agent: duggmirror
       Disallow: /
   
       # global
       User-agent: *
       Disallow: /cgi-bin/
       Disallow: /wp-admin/
       Disallow: /wp-includes/
       Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
       Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
       Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
       Disallow: /trackback/
       Disallow: /feed/
       Disallow: /comments/
       Disallow: /category/*/*
       Disallow: */trackback/
       Disallow: */feed/
       Disallow: */comments/
       Disallow: /*?
       Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
       ```
   
 *  [Paweł Knapek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adpawl/)
 * (@adpawl)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-generates-strange-links/#post-2733241)
 * Use
 *     ```
       Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
   
       # Google Image
       User-agent: Googlebot-Image
       Disallow:
       Allow: /*
   
       # Google AdSense
       User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
       Disallow:
   
       # digg mirror
       User-agent: duggmirror
       Disallow: /
   
       # global
       User-agent: *
       Disallow: /cgi-bin/
       Disallow: /wp-admin/
       Disallow: /wp-includes/
       Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
       Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
       Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
       Disallow: /trackback/
       Disallow: /feed/
       Disallow: /tag/
       Disallow: /comments/
       Disallow: /category/*/*
       Disallow: */trackback/
       Disallow: */feed/
       Disallow: */comments/
       Disallow: /*?
       Allow: /wp-content/uploads/
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Paweł Knapek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adpawl/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-generates-strange-links/#post-2733241)
 * Status: not resolved

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