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How does Google find /feed/ at the end of all pages on my site?
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Hi!
In Google Webmaster Tools I find *.../feed/ as a 404 page in crawl errors. The problem is that none of these pages exist and they have no inbound links (except the start page).
FYI, it´s a wordpress site.
Example:
Does Google search for /feed/ by default or why do I keep getting these 404´s every day?
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Hi Tommy
You can do as Aran suggests - a redirect would be fine for feeds you don't want being crawled.
But more importantly, you may want to consider not indexing subpages (like this one: http://www.mediaanalys.se/blogg/page/2/) - you can make this setting in Yoast.
Let us know!
-Dan
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Thanks for your support
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I'm all out of ideas then!
set up the 301 and see what happens
Sorry I couldn't be of more help!
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I´ve checked the sitemap, you find it at ....se/sitemap_index.xml
It´s Yoast plugin BTW.
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I see your point... cant find reference to /feed/ however i also cannot find your sitemap.xml to confirm their are no references in there are their an external links pointing to kontakt/feed?
I'd consider adding a 301 rule into the htaccess to redirect traffic from the offending 404 pages, just in case.
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Sure, notice that it´s in swedish
Example of one page that Google report 404 on is our contact page with /feed/ at the end,
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could you share the url?
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Hi Aran, thanks for your time!
Meta and sitemaps are clear. I also checked the source code for the specific pages that Google have in their reports, but no link.
I´ve also googled about the automatic feed functions in WP but no problem there either.
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By default I think most wordpress blogs have a feed accessible via the urls you describe (http://en.support.wordpress.com/feeds/)
I'm pretty sure there specified somewhere link in sitemaps or even in meta.
Have you disabled your feeds?
Seeing your URL would help.
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