: Google Fetch Returning 404 Pages That Are Tags With A Web Address Added To The End I have a Wordpress site that I have set up with Google Fetch and I have been getting a bunch of crawl
I have a Wordpress site that I have set up with Google Fetch and I have been getting a bunch of crawl errors and it has started significantly hurting my Google ranking and site traffic even though it clearly says it shouldn't. The thing that doesn't make sense to me is that the 404 pages are not actually pages that exist. They are Tags and categories on my blog mixed with a site address from one of my other websites that is not actually associated with this blog at all. They are different domains/databases and everything so they shouldn't be connected.
The site was actually giving me the same problem a few weeks ago and I actually switched to a new theme because I noticed the one I had was out of date and thought maybe it was throwing a random error. But now, I have no idea why this would even happen or where Google would come up with this URL.
Here are a few examples:
whenlovegrows.com/tag/lactose-free-food/www.deannemroz.com www.whenlovegrows.com/tag/crescent-dogs/www.deannemroz.com whenlovegrows.com/tag/turkey-dogs/www.deannemroz.com
Basically any time I add a new tag it seems that Google is crawling it and then adding my other site's web address to the end and claiming it is a 404 page. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? Is there some way I can help it?
Any insight would be much appreciated. I am at a loss as to how to fix this and it is becoming extremely frustrating since it is affecting my ranking.
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Those URLs are consistent with a malformed/relative link on the tag page (which appears to have been the case). Every tag page links to that particular external site.
If the URL in the anchor was of the form example.com (ie. missing a protocol and not starting with a slash), rather than absolute www.example.com, then it will be seen as relative to the current document and result in the URLs that Google found.
To help track down erroneous URLs, you can click on the URL in the "URL Errors" report and then on the "Linked from" tab to see from which pages the URL is being linked from.
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