Google Search Console Crawl Errors?

[TapGoods]

We are using Google Search Console to monitor Crawl Errors. It seems Google is listing errors that are not actual errors. For instance, it shows this as "Not found":

https://tapgoods.com/products/tapgoods__8_ft_plastic_tables_11_available

So the page does not exist, but we cannot find any pages linking to it. It has a tab that shows Linked From, but if I look at the source of those pages, the link is not there. In this case, it is showing the front page (listed twice, both for http and https). Also, one of the pages it shows as linking to the non-existant page above is a non-existant page.

We marked all the errors as fixed last week and then this week they came up again. 2/3 are the same pages we marked as fixed last week.

Is this an issue with Google Search Console? Are we getting penalized for a non existant issue?

[Chris_Hickman]

Hello,

You are not being penalized for these crawl errors, but it's important to monitor these. Continue to mark them as fixed and double check to make sure there are none that are broken. Many people have encountered the same issue you are mentioning, it seems to be inaccuracies within Google. Another option is to 301 these 'fake' URLs, however this may be time consuming for you. Also I would double check your sitemap, and make sure the links are not in the sitemap.

Hope this helps.

Chris

Adficient.com

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Agreed with Chris, when you have a lot of pages and when your code is a little bit more complex then some basic stuff Google Search Console will have a habit of sending. What I saw in the past as well is that they pick up parts of your tracking code and try to find URL structures within the code that don't really exist but are part of it.

Nothing to really worry about, if you make sure you run a monthly or quarterly crawl to check upon weird URL structures on your site and these URLs don't pop-up there you should be fine. As mentioned, just mark them as fixed so the real issues will move up again.