Wordpress SEO Errors - Any advice?
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Hi all! My site is on the WP platform and I'm having a crawl error. Wondering if you guys could possibly help me figure out what's going on?
- I have a good number of 404 errors where the links seems to be appended and I can't figure out why. I've scoured my individual posts and cannot seem to find the broken link? The crawl error looks a bit like this:
http://preciousthingsphotography.com/2007/12/10/chicago-family-photographer-welcome/http:%2F%2Fpreciousthingsphotography.com%2F2007%2F12%2F10%2Fchicago-family-photographer-welcome%2F
You can see that my original link is somehow being doubled with the slashes being replaced? This is happening on all of my posts. Any ideas as to what could be going on?
Thanks so much!
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I hope that was the issue. Comparable things have happened to me and it's the worst when you have to spend endless hours trying to figure out why you are having issues.
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It appears as though the crawl errors are coming from my RSS comment feed being crawled. We shall see if this is the issue!
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