Crawling 4XX errors because of URL accented

[fran875]

Hello guys,

I am experiencing crawling errors in Moz because the URLs read by spiders contain accents and special characters, which I know isn't best but yet my client needs to keep it.

I know that  Moz "uses percent encoding to parse the HTML in the source code, so any line breaks and spaces in your HTML links or sitemap links are converted to %0A and %20, causing a 404 error".

Is there any way to avoid these errors happening in the dashboard? Or am I supposed to simply ignore it?

[eli.myers]

Hi!

Thanks for reaching out to us - would you be able to email help@moz.com so we can take a closer look at this please.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Eli

[fran875]

Cheers Eli,

sending an email through now!