Search Console Crawl Errors/Not Found - Strange URLs
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Hello,
In Google Search Console under Crawl > Crawl Errors > Not found I have strange URLs like the following:
https://www.domain.com//UbaOZ/
https://www.domain.com//UPhXZ/
https://www.domain.com//KaUpZ/WYdhZ/SnQZZ/MOcUZ/There is no info in Linked From tab.
Have you seen this type of error??
Does anyone know whats causing it??
How should it be fixed??Thanks for reading and the help!
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Exactly - I would do the same and make sure to mark them as fixed. Also worth noting that if you have a lot of errors showing up, it could be easier to mark everything as fixed first and then check back in a week or two to get the actual bad URLs to appear versus having to go through a bunch that may or not be accurate anymore.
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Hi Chuck,
I have seen something similar on one of my previous projects, where outsider domains have been redirected to the project itself. So spammycrap.tld/UbaOZ had a redirect to ourproject.tld/UbaOZ/ this way it was appearing in our Search Console error list.
I discovered it by going through all the backlinks from AHrefs and Majestic. If this is also your case, unfortunately, you cannot do much about it, especially if you do not have any control over those domains. What I did, I created a list of these URLs, and redirected them to a page on our project, which had a 410 status code.
Hopefully, this approach helps you.
István
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