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    • ProspectoGroup
      ProspectoGroup last edited by

      I have a lot of 404 links in my exported Moz Pro reports which are not actually Not Found pages when checking the Referring URL. For example:

      Referring URL:
      https://ofertolino.ro/oferte/barn%C3%A4ngen

      404:
      https://ofertolino.ro/barn%C3%83%C2%A4ngen

      What happens is that the referring URL leads to a redirect (https://ofertolino.ro/barn%C3%A4ngen) but it never leads to the specified 404 Page (which has even a more weird symbol in the URL when it is url decoded) in the report.

      What could be the issue here and is the Moz bot responsible for such misbehaviour?

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      • dave.kudera
        dave.kudera last edited by

        Hey - Dave from Support here.

        Can you send these details to our support team along with your account info, so we can take a look at your campaign Site Crawl results? Feel free to reach us at help@moz.com

        thanks!

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