keat Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I spotted a crawl error on my webmaster tools account, so followed the link and it takes me to a category, that doesn't appear to exists. This is same on 3 different sites. /index.php?searchStr=&act=viewCat appear to take me to a category called sale items which is empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 I have a sitemap.xml entry for /index.php?_a=saleitems that is legitimate. I do remember there was a code change some time ago that changed the logic so Sale Items were in the sitemap only if SOME of the store products were on sale. If ALL items were on sale, it did not show in the sitemap. And if NONE of the items were on sale, it did not show in the sitemap. I think this started as a Bsmither change he helped me with, but I'm pretty sure it ended up being added to stock code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havenswift-hosting Posted April 7, 2017 Share Posted April 7, 2017 3 hours ago, keat said: /index.php?searchStr=&act=viewCat That looks like an old V3 or maybe V4 format URL - were the sites that you have this issue on originally on old versions and do you have that URL added within a document or description somewhere ? Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foz1234 Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 i have spotted in my webmasters for a while now crawl errors where it seems its cut the url off or its added a forward slash on the end, completely random not the same one each time eg:- https://www.domain.com/best-vpn-f https://www.domain.com/shop.html/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keat Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 All the sites were V3, I'll have to scour the documents to see if there's a link embedded anywhere. Unfortunately, webmastertools gives nothing away to the location of any links. http://www.cabletiesonline.co.uk/index.php?searchStr=&act=viewCat I ran a query in the database for the string /index.php?searchStr=&act=viewCat and can't find this embedded in any products or doc contents, so I've no idea where this is being generated. Intersting that I tried this on Dirty Butters site and it does the same. Drop the string ' /index.php?searchStr=&act=viewCat ' directly after the URL and it will resolve to 'Sale Items' so it's not just mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 2 hours ago, keat said: Intersting that I tried this on Dirty Butters site and it does the same. Drop the string ' /index.php?searchStr=&act=viewCat ' directly after the URL and it will resolve to 'Sale Items' so it's not just mine. But I just checked, and I do NOT have any Webmaster Tools crawl errors for sale items. I DO get 404 crawl errors for old v4 formed links, no matter how hard I've tried to eliminate all of them. The only thing that makes sense is that somewhere in the universe some old aggregate crawler page still has those old links on a page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keat Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 I don't have crawler errors for 'Sale Items' either, I have crawler errors for ' http://www.cabletiesonline.co.uk/index.php?searchStr=&act=viewCat ' which if you follow it takes you to 'Sale Items' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty Butter Posted April 13, 2017 Share Posted April 13, 2017 Sorry - that's what I meant - I don't have any of those long url's that resolve to the blank sale items page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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