.%E2%80%9d breaking the URL in wordpress

[hith234]

My wordpress URL is breaking and there are 5000 not found urls in webmaster due to some code being added

%E2%80%9d. This code stands for double quotation marks - "

Now the question is, where has my site gone wrong? I will tell you the changes which i have made

1. Deleted a Vbulletin forum - Half of the errors are due to the forum being deleted directly

2. Upgraded to Wordpress 3.3 (crawl errors did not show on the same day. Much later)

3. Upgraded to Blue host pro (crawl errors did not show on the same day. Much later)

These are some of the speculations. But nonetheless i have no idea why this is happening. To give further hints, the Home page URL is being added to the original URL.

http://www.marketing91.com/article/http://www.marketing91.com

http://www.marketing91.com/article/http://www.wrodpress.org

So these are a list of problems i am facing in URL. Now i have no idea why this is happening. I can account for the deletion of a vbulletin forum. But that accounts only for half of the crawl errors. So any replies or answers??

[AlanMosley]

I can see your problem when i do the crawl, when i look at the page I can not see the offending links in the code.

So we can say it happaning dynamicaly. Try disabling addons. I have seen simullar urls in wordpress sites i have crawled.

[ShaMenz]

Hi Hitesh,

Are you by any chance using the Google Analytics plugin for Wordpress from Yoast?

Your problem sounds quite similar to that described by Joe in this recent Q&A thread

After a great deal of investigation, Joe reported that he was using this plugin and this was a known issue.

If you can rule out the plugin first, then we can investigate further.

Hope that helps,

Sha

[AlanMosley]

I believe this is your problem, this plugin for WordPress.

http://dev30.linksalpha.com/?p=8

[hith234]

Thanks a lot. I have deactivated the linksalpha plugin. It is a social network sharing plugin. I m ok with no social sharing if it just stops this problem.

[hith234]

Dear Sha, I have now deleted the Ypast plugin for google analytics and have directly inserted the analytics code just before the /head section. Lets c. I think we will get to know the results in 2 days as webmaster takes 2 days to sort things out. But thanks for the answer.

[AlanMosley]

It must be the root of the problem as the offending links have "linksalpha.com" in them.

http://www.linksalpha.com/social?blog=Marketing91.com&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marketing91.com%2F6-marketing-lessons-harry-potter%2F&title=6+Marketing+lessons+from+Harry+Potter&desc=1+Have great quality+– +No+one+can+argue+this.+The+Harry+Potter+series+(along+with+lord+of+the+rings)+is+one+of+the+best+books+I%2C+and+many+others%2C+have+read+till+date.+Quality+is+all+it+provides+&fc=333333&fs=arial&fblname=like&fblref=facebook&fbllang=en_US&fblshow=1&fbsbutton=1&fbsctr=1&fbslang=en&fbsendbutton=0&twbutton=1&twlang=en&twmention=marketing91&twrelated1=&twrelated2=&twctr=1&lnkdshow=noshow&lnkdctr=0&buzzbutton=1&buzzlang=en&buzzctr=1&diggbutton=1&diggctr=1&stblbutton=1&stblctr=1&g1button=1&g1ctr=1&g1lang=en-US

[AlanMosley]

So,thing else, i noticed in your site. you have 90+ pages with 2 canonical tags, here is an example.

this will not be helping

http://www.marketing91.com/marketing-bookstore/