Rogerbot crawls my site and causes error as it uses urls that don't exist
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Whenever the rogerbot comes back to my site for a crawl it seems to want to crawl urls that dont exist and thus causes errors to be reported...
Example:- The correct url is as follows:
/vw-baywindow/cab_door_slide_door_tailgate_engine_lid_parts/cab_door_seals/genuine_vw_brazil_cab_door_rubber_68-79_10330/
But it seems to want to crawl the following:
/vw-baywindow/cab_door_slide_door_tailgate_engine_lid_parts/cab_door_seals/genuine_vw_brazil_cab_door_rubber_68-79_10330/?id=10330
This format doesn't exist anywhere and never has so I have no idea where its getting this url format from
The user agent details I get are as follows:
IP ADDRESS: 107.22.107.114
USER AGENT: rogerbot/1.0 (http://moz.com/help/pro/what-is-rogerbot-, rogerbot-crawler+pr1-crawler-17@moz.com) -
The first thing I would do is download the crawl report as an excel sheet. You can do this from your crawl report page.
From there, sort by the 404 error column, bringing "True" to the top. The top of the list is now the broken URL's. One of the very last columns on the right is the "referrer" column. This will show you the page where Roger is getting the bad link from.
Make Sense?