Mysterious bogus links

oceaniana · 10-21-2006, 08:25 PM

Hello

I keep getting unsuallinks google keeps finding, i cant find them with xenu, my crawler cant find them, but in webmaster tools at google > diagnostics > crawl errors
I keep getting these errors with my url in front of the com, they dont exist
UFONT color=#0000ff.com/%1F/FONT/U
UFONT color=#0000ff.com/%1Fn/FONT/U
UFONT color=#0000ff.com/%1F&=%1FC%23%1F=%23%1Fa/%1Fa/%1F%5E /FONT/U
PIs this normal? a bug? someone submitting bogus urls to google? if its the latter is it not my sitemap it sould be keeping a record of?PI dont know if there are any kind of reps here from google or if i should post this here but any way, i like your tools but if the diagnostics had where the bogus link came from, like was it from a page that would make it a top tool, otherwise not much use except to tell u got a problem.PAny kind of suggestions or feed back would really be appreaciated

mondine · 10-21-2006, 11:00 PM

Nope. There's not official Google representation here, but there are probably quite a few people that have seen something similar.

Maybe someone else has figured what this can be. My guess is that most times it's buggy browser behaviour, or people following a malformed link.

andrew247 · 10-23-2006, 01:52 PM

It looks a bit like URL Encoding and garbage mixed.

Zhra · 10-29-2006, 10:05 PM

I told some one else earlier that I do recommend for you to create A Custom 404 File Not Found Page
And in stead of writing default massage to tell that the page is not found
Make site-map for the new pages
So when ever google or any search engine even me and you
When we miss the old URL
They will find the new site-map
Which will lead them to the new pages.

Fridge-Door · 10-31-2006, 06:18 AM

you could try to add the above links to your robots.txt and google won't follow them and hence not show these errors. But that doesn't fix the problem, that is if it is a problem to begin with.

10-21-2006, 08:25 PM	#1 (permalink)
oceaniana Noogle Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Mysterious bogus links Hello I keep getting unsuallinks google keeps finding, i cant find them with xenu, my crawler cant find them, but in webmaster tools at google > diagnostics > crawl errors I keep getting these errors with my url in front of the com, they dont exist UFONT color=#0000ff.com/%1F/FONT/U UFONT color=#0000ff.com/%1Fn/FONT/U UFONT color=#0000ff.com/%1F&=%1FC%23%1F=%23%1Fa/%1Fa/%1F%5E /FONT/U PIs this normal? a bug? someone submitting bogus urls to google? if its the latter is it not my sitemap it sould be keeping a record of?PI dont know if there are any kind of reps here from google or if i should post this here but any way, i like your tools but if the diagnostics had where the bogus link came from, like was it from a page that would make it a top tool, otherwise not much use except to tell u got a problem.PAny kind of suggestions or feed back would really be appreaciated

10-21-2006, 11:00 PM	#2 (permalink)
mondine Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC. Posts: 4,002 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Nope. There's not official Google representation here, but there are probably quite a few people that have seen something similar. Maybe someone else has figured what this can be. My guess is that most times it's buggy browser behaviour, or people following a malformed link. __________________

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10-23-2006, 01:52 PM	#3 (permalink)
andrew247 Google Guru Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: c:\GoogleCommunity Posts: 3,386 Thanks: 3 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts	It looks a bit like URL Encoding and garbage mixed.

10-29-2006, 10:05 PM	#4 (permalink)
Zhra Junior Googler Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Morroco Posts: 30 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I told some one else earlier that I do recommend for you to create A Custom 404 File Not Found Page And in stead of writing default massage to tell that the page is not found Make site-map for the new pages So when ever google or any search engine even me and you When we miss the old URL They will find the new site-map Which will lead them to the new pages.

10-31-2006, 06:18 AM	#5 (permalink)
Fridge-Door Noogle Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Australia/QLD/Ipswich Posts: 17 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	you could try to add the above links to your robots.txt and google won't follow them and hence not show these errors. But that doesn't fix the problem, that is if it is a problem to begin with.

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