Crawl Diagnostics saids a page is linking but I can't find the link on the page.

[SebastianThode]

Hi

I have just got my first Crawl Diagnostics report and I have a questions.

It saids that this page: http://goo.gl/8py9wj links to http://goo.gl/Uc7qKq which is a 404. I can't recognize the URL on the page which is a 404 and when searching in the code I can't find the %7Blink%7D in the URL which gives the problems.

I hope you can help me to understand what triggers it

[DirkC]

Hi,

Can't find the link on the page you give as an example - but on other pages you have in the source a link of type

<a <span="" class="html-attribute-name">href</a><a <span="" class="html-attribute-name">="{link}"></a><a <span="" class="html-attribute-name">href="http://www.....dk/video-virtuelt-cockpit-i-ny-audi-a4/"</a>

<a <span="" class="html-attribute-name">Sourcepage: www......dk/bilmaerker/chevrolet/page/2/

In the browser the {link} is encoded as %7Blink%7D

Hope this helps,

Dirk</a>

[SebastianThode]

Thank you Dirk! I will look closer to this.

But what would you do to make Google stop indexing these pages? Hope you can help

[DirkC]

It's probably possible to block these url's from indexing using a regular expression in your robots.txt - however keep in mind that if bots encounter these links users will encounter them as well which leads to a degraded user experience.

If I was in your situation I would try to solve the problem at the root - avoiding that these strange links are created in the first place.

rgds,

Dirk