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I had a similar issue and found it was due to (in the case of a MozPro crawl at least) the bot crawling a JS command in the head. One of the commands included an anchor tag that was being read as a link rather than in context of the java script command. Check your JS files/scripts. It might be in there somewhere.

Hey Dan,

There was a great article by David Mihm about this and the factors that various industry types felt were a key influence in not only Places pages but local search in general, that might be a good resource for you. 
NAP consistency (name, address, phone number) appears to be the most important factor. The physical street address and how that relates to the location of the person doing the search, so your residential address on the listing is likely an issue if you're trying to rank for CBD.

It also seems that the authority (on both topics and location) of your actual website - when properly linked up to your place page - plays a big role too. So make sure your site is associated/and features info about the categories and location your trying to be found for. Make sure your categories are the most appropriate for your market - adwords tool would be good to establish this.

Good luck.

No negative issues i could see either.
Maybe a performance improvement you could make by combining your JS calls (just from a decrease in load time - but that'd be very minimal), but from a bot point of view I reckon it looks good.

Hmm, it's an odd one. Is their anything in the root called refelxology.php? If so, check it out to see if that query is being pulled in from anywhere in particular.

Otherwise, a couple of things you could do to get rid of it.

• 301 the page to somewhere else. (perhaps 301 anything with the query ?Action=Webring
• Add it to your robots.txt file to not crawl.
• if reflexology.php does exist, add a canonical tag to it.

I know that doesn't answer why it's happening, but at least it will take care of the crappy result for your clients.

In appache you can set a re-write rule (for 301's) that would apend everything from the # tag to the redirected url.

EG: website.com/training#1. You could set the rule redirecting the website.com/training to go to awesomesite.com/training and attach the #1 if it existed on the new page.

We've done it on our site a few times.

Hey all,

Rarely, but sometimes we require to take down our site for server maintenance, upgrades or various other system/network reasons. More often than not these downtimes are avoidable and we can redirect or eliminate the client side downtime.

We have a 'down for maintenance - be back soon' page that is client facing. ANd outages are often no more than an hour tops.

My question is, if the site is crawled by Bing/Google at the time of site being down, what is the best way of ensuring the indexed links are not refreshed with this maintenance content? (ie: this is what the pages look like now, so this is what the SE will index).

I was thinking that add a no crawl to the robots.txt for the period of downtime and remove it once back up, but will this potentially affect results as well?

Give this one a try Erik.

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm

Be sure to assign in your webmaster tools if you are using either www. or no www too. (site config - settings). Choose one of the options to ensure you don't get both types showing up in your SERPs.

Good luck