Title: Yoast-ga/outbound-article not found errors
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Yoast-ga/outbound-article not found errors

 *  [sahar.seo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saharseo/)
 * (@saharseo)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/)
 * In Google webmaster tools I have 65 not found errors and all the links are similar
   to this: yoast-ga/outbound-article/www.pimaair.org
    How do I stop these errors?
 * Thank you!

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 *  [sandnsurf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandnsurf/)
 * (@sandnsurf)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930703)
 * I have exactly the same problem…and have gone form 34 errors to 14,675 in three
   days – all with the yoast-ga/outbound-article/
    Have had a look at Yoast WP plugin
   with no luck so far
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930704)
 * [@sahar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sahar/).seo
 * Can you post here the error message?
 *  Thread Starter [sahar.seo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saharseo/)
 * (@saharseo)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930740)
 * yoast-ga/outbound-article/http://maps.google.com
 *  [ronr1999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronr1999/)
 * (@ronr1999)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930756)
 * In Yoast Google Analytic’s plugin:
 * Uncheck: “Track outbound clicks & downloads”
 * That should do it…
 *  [netmeg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netmeg/)
 * (@netmeg)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930778)
 * Umm no. That’s not a solution. I want to track outbound clicks; I don’t want 
   it generating false URLS. I have six sites configured exactly the same, and it’s
   not happening on all of them, moreover, I’ve been running this plugin for years
   and it only just started behaving this way.
 *  [James Carroll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcarroll/)
 * (@jcarroll)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930787)
 * Agreed; I’d like to track outbound clicks without having false URLs. Any advice?
   Thanks!
 *  [bobbytech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobbytech/)
 * (@bobbytech)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930799)
 * The solution is very simple. Create a robots.txt file and place it at the root
   of your web site (e.g. mysite.com/robots.txt) and put in the following disallow
   statement to prevent this path from being spidered:
 * User-Agent: *
    Disallow: /yoast-ga/
 * This allows you to continue tracking those external links and prevents the 404s
   you’re seeing in Google Webmaster Tools. Need more info about robots.txt? [http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html](http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html)

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 * [not found errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/not-found-errors/)

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 * Last reply from: [bobbytech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobbytech/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yoast-gaoutbound-article-not-found-errors/#post-2930799)
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