Odd URL errors upon crawl

[Matt1]

Hi,

I see this in Google Webmasters, and am now also seeing it here...when a crawl is performed on my site, I get many 500 server error codes for URLs that I don't believe exist. It's as if it sees a normal URL but adds this to it: %3Cdiv%20id=

It's like this for hundreds of URLs.

Good URL that actually exists

http://www.ffr-dsi.com/food-retailing/supplies/

URL that causes error and I have no idea why

http://www.ffr-dsi.com/food-retailing/supplies/%3Cdiv%20id=

Thanks!

[MikeRoberts]

Just looking at the URL you posted, it looks like an open DIV tag or an incorrectly closed link in the source causing an html encoding issue.

[Matt1]

Thanks for the fast reply Mike. I don't suppose there is a tool or plugin that could hunt it down that you know of?

[MikeRoberts]

I have a crazy Russian coder who does all of that for me so I'm honestly not 100% sure how to find these errors more easily in order to correct them.

[Mike.Goracke]

Like Mike said, it looks like a coding issue.

It looks like /food-retailing/supplies/food-preparation and /food-retailing/supplies/safety-janitorial are both linking to /food-retailing/supplies/

You can use validator.w3.org to check for some coding errors.

A quick glance at things looks like your /food-preparation page has an open tag in the code lines between 1423-1431:

2. Page:

3. 1

4. []( RIGHT HERE YOU ARE MISSING CODE<br />            <br />            <div id= "Page 2")

[That was just a quick glance.

Hope it helps.

Mike]( RIGHT HERE YOU ARE MISSING CODE<br />            <br />            <div id= "Page 2")

[Matt1]

Thanks Mike. I ran the page through the validator, and it came up with quite a few errors. I'm not sure how severe they are, but I will be sending them to my web vendor. I appreciate the help.