GWT indexing wrong pages

[elias99]

Hi SEOMoz

I have a listings site. In a part of the page, I have 3 comboboxes, for state, county and city. On the change event, the javascript redirects the user to the page of the selected location. Parameters are passed via GET, and my URL is rewrited via htaccess. Example:

http:///www.site.com/state/county/city.html

The problem is, there is A LOT(more than 10k) of 404 errors. It is happenning because the crawler is trying to index the pages, sometimes WITHOUT a parameter, like

http:///www.site.com/state//city.html

I don't know how to stop it, and I don't wanna remove it, once it's very clicked by the users. What should I do?

[RyanKent]

In short, your site URL structure needs to be designed in such a way that Google and other engines can crawl it. Clearly 10k 404 pages is an issue which needs to be addressed.

It sounds like your sites redirect or navigation was not set up properly. Without being able to look at the site there is not a lot more information I can share. Would you be able to share your URL?