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  • Jay328
    Jay328 last edited by Mar 27, 2014, 1:31 PM

    Hey there.

    For some reason when doing crawl tests I'm finding pages with the domain name being tacked on the end and causing 404 errors. 
    For example:  http://domainname.com/page-name/http://domainname.com

    This is happening to all pages, posts and even category type

    1. Site is in Wordpress
    2. Using Yoast SEO plugin

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks!

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    • Food-Garden
      Food-Garden @Jay328 last edited by Mar 11, 2015, 6:56 PM Mar 11, 2015, 6:56 PM

      Hey Jay,

      Can you tell me, how you found the incorrect html? I am having the exact same problem, as you did back then, but I don't know where to look. I am having two sites, both Wordpress and build over the same theme, but one has a lot of 404 errors according to Moz and Webmastertools. The other one doesn't.

      It's it driving me crazy!

      Thanks!

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      • AndrewAtMGXCopy
        AndrewAtMGXCopy @Jay328 last edited by Mar 27, 2014, 9:12 PM Mar 27, 2014, 9:12 PM

        grats!

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        • Jay328
          Jay328 last edited by Mar 27, 2014, 9:07 PM Mar 27, 2014, 9:07 PM

          I found the main culprit!   There was a sitewide link in the footer that had incorrect html formatting.  Instead of http://domainname.com, it was incorrectly inserted as domainname.com.

          Thanks for the help!

          AndrewAtMGXCopy Food-Garden 2 Replies Last reply Mar 11, 2015, 6:56 PM Reply Quote 1
          • MikeRoberts
            MikeRoberts @Jay328 last edited by Mar 27, 2014, 3:45 PM Mar 27, 2014, 3:45 PM

            I had this problem in Wordpress about a year ago. In my case it was caused by links being entered into posts getting turned into relative links instead of being absolute links. Somehow this was causing the links to append the domain name to the end of the url. In our case it turned out to be an incompatibility between plugins. Have you tested all your plugins to see if any of them are interfering and causing this issue?

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            • KeriMorgret
              KeriMorgret @Jay328 last edited by Apr 10, 2014, 12:14 AM Mar 27, 2014, 3:17 PM

              It's often an internal link that's a bit screwed up that will cause this to happen. Look for a missing colon in http:, or something like that.

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              • Jay328
                Jay328 last edited by Mar 27, 2014, 1:56 PM Mar 27, 2014, 1:47 PM

                I've run the crawl tests in Screaming Frog and Moz. Webmaster tools is finding these errors as well.  The sitemap is clean and void of these URLS which is strange.

                Just to clarify- All the old urls are fine such as http://domainname.com/page-name .  They've all been duplicated with http://domainname.com/page-name/http://domainname

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                • AndrewAtMGXCopy
                  AndrewAtMGXCopy last edited by Mar 27, 2014, 1:41 PM Mar 27, 2014, 1:41 PM

                  Hey Jay —

                  Where're you doing these crawl tests? Does Google Webmaster and Moz both show these errors?

                  Also, is there a remote chance something is wrong in the sitemap.xml?

                  — Andrew

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