Crawl Diagnostics finding pages that dont exist. Will Rel Canon Help?

[CompleteOffice]

I have recently set up a campaign for www.completeoffice.co.uk. Im the in-house developer there. When the crawl diagnostics completed, i went to check the results, and to my surprise, it had well over 100 missing or empty title tags. I then clicked it to see what pages, and nearly all the pages it say have missing or empty title tags, DO NOT EXIST.

This has really confused me and need help figuring out how to solve this. Can anyone help?

Attached image is a screen shot of some of the links it showed me on crawl diagnostics, nearly all of these do not exist.

Will the relation Canonical tag in the head section of the actual pages help?

For example,

The actual page that exist is: www.completeoffice.co.uk/Products.php

Whereas, when crawled it actually showed www.completeoffice.co.uk/Products/Products.php

Will have the rel can tag in the header of the real products.php solve this?

[de4e]

Hi,

Yes, canonical tag will word great.

But if people share this page and currently there are small amount of links to www.completeoffice.co.uk/Products/Products.php, i recommend to create 301 redirect for better URL look.

[Desiree-CP]

I performed a quick crawl of your website and immediately found part of the problem - it looks like your HTML sitemaps is still linking to the pages in question.

With that in mind, I would NOT recommend using the canonical tag here.  Instead, I would check whether or not these pages have links pointing to them.  If they don't, then just change the URL in your sitemaps to the correct location.  However, if you do have inbound links to these pages then implement a 301 Permanent Redirect to the appropriate page.

I didn't conduct a comprehensive crawl but if you'd like your own data then please check out Xenu Link Sleuth.  Also, I think inside the SEOmoz PRO campaign you can click on each individual URL and it'll show you the referring links as well.

Hope that helps and good luck!

UPDATE: Actually, the problem looks like it's coming from your source code.  You have your old URLs still located on the page under

.  A parallel issue is 'products.php' and 'Products.php' both resolve completely different pages so you might want to look into 301 redirecting them.

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[CompleteOffice]

Wow, what a great answer. Thanks bunch, actually helped alot