I received this rather alarming message from Google Webmaster Tools today:
"Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that return a 404 (Page Not Found) error. Investigating these errors and fixing them where appropriate ensures that Google can successfully crawl your site's pages."
Many of the URLs that fail to be crawled look like:
http://sue-adams.hubpages.com/1027454/h … ed_520x280
All preceded by
http://sue-adams.hubpages.com/
follows a list of just 25 of the 110 urls that are broken links on my sub-domain that I cannot fix:
1027454/technology_hub_sidebar_2_300x250
404
2/6/15
1027454/knowledge_hub_below_related_520x280
404
2/6/15
1027454/fashion_hub_mobile_content_last_300x250
404
2/8/15
1027454/knowledge_hub_sidebar_2_300x250
404
2/8/15
hub/arts-and-design/photos-and-photography/Name-Dropping
410
2/4/15
1027454/technology_hub_share_520x280
404
2/6/15
1027454/relationship_hub_sidebar_2_300x250
404
2/5/15
1027454/hubpages_hub_sidebar_last_300x600
404
2/7/15
1027454/hubpages_hub_sidebar_1_300x600
404
2/7/15
1027454/technology_hub_below_related_520x280
404
2/7/15
1027454/hubpages_hub_sidebar_2_300x250
404
2/7/15
1027454/hubpages_hub_share_520x280
404
2/7/15
1027454/politics_hub_sidebar_2_300x250
404
2/9/15
1027454/politics_hub_sidebar_bonus_300x600
404
2/9/15
1027454/politics_hub_below_related_520x280
404
2/9/15
1027454/hubpages_hub_mobile_content_last_300x250
404
2/8/15
1027454/relationship_hub_share_520x280
404
2/5/15
1027454/fashion_hub_mobile_sticky_320x50
404
2/7/15
1027454/entertainment_hub_footer_520x280_notad
404
2/8/15
1027454/entertainment_hub_sidebar_last_300x600
404
2/8/15
1027454/relationship_hub_sidebar_bonus_300x600
404
2/5/15
hub/health/exercise-and-fitness/shake-weight-for-arms-shoulders-and-chest
410
1/22/15
1027454/fashion_hub_mobile_content_1_300x250
404
2/7/15
1027454/politics_hub_sidebar_last_300x600
404
2/9/15
1027454/politics_hub_sidebar_1_300x600
404
2/9/15
There are no less than 110 of such errors just on my own subdomain! Should I be worried? Anyone else facing this?
These are not a problem. They're not links to your hubs, they're mostly links to ad units, which google doesn't need to crawl.
Susana S has it right. Google is really aggressive at trying to extract urls from JavaScript. These aren't urls, but they try them any ways.
Regardless, we will try and clean it up and have been looking at a few solutions.
I received the same message again today except the number of broken links has now increased from 110 to 124!
"http://sue-adams.hubpages.com/: Increase in not found errors
Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that return a 404 (Page Not Found) error. Investigating these errors and fixing them where appropriate ensures that Google can successfully crawl your site's pages."
Paul, you said you were going to do something about this. Have you found any solutions?
We put out one of the recommended fixes, but I'm still seeing new reports. There could be a lag in our fix and google reporting errors. I'm going to watch it over the next few days and if they don't slow way down, we will try something else.
Relieved, I hope it will soon be fixed.
Thank you Paul, for quick response.
That is good news- I had an e mail too but did not really understand it and put my hope in Hubpages understanding it! Seems it was the right thing to do
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