‘/wordpress’ — Google search console — dead links

  • johnnyivan

    (@johnnyivan)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    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

    8 years, 1 month ago

    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)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    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

    8 years, 1 month ago

    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)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    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)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    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:

    http://johnwhiteillustrator.com/dredd.shtml
    but when it’s clicked in Search Console, it tries to go to:
    http://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
    http://johnwhiteillustrator.com/dredd.shtml
    to
    the correct new page, and requested removal of both of the following from Google’s index:
    http://johnwhiteillustrator.com/dredd.shtml
    http://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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