Google Fetch Issue

[KempRugeLawGroup]

I'm having some problems with what google is fetching and what it isn't, and I'd like to know why. For example, google IS fetching a non-existent page but listing it as an error: http://www.gaport.com/carports but the actual url is http://www.gaport.com/carports.htm.

Google is NOT able to fetch http://www.gaport.com/aluminum/storage-buildings-10x12.htm. It says the page doesn't exist (even though it does) and when I click on the not found link in Google fetch it adds %E@%80%8E to the url causing the problem.

One theory we have is that this may be some sort of server/hosting problem, but that's only really because we can't figure out what we could have done to cause it. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Ruben

[FedeEinhorn]

Hi Ruben

I checked your page and it works well with both my useragent and googlebot's which in result it shouldn't show an error when you manually fetch it. That should be some kind of Google glitch and you can probably ask for help in the Webmaster Help forums.

As for Google fetching not existent pages, that completely normal. The most common reason is that someone linked to the page and instead wrote the URL wrong. Check in the report, click on the URL, and see form where it is linked from. You can also find that there's no page linking to that non-existent page, but still Google tries to fetch it anyways, that has been widely known as Google trying to "guess" URLs that are actually not listed anywhere.

Hope that helps!

Happy holidays!

[KempRugeLawGroup]

Thank you so much!