: Pages accessed ending in /mobile Since April 16th I've been getting alerts regarding a high number of 404s to pages that do exist on our website, but with /mobile appended. For example: www.mysite.com/some-page/mobile
Since April 16th I've been getting alerts regarding a high number of 404s to pages that do exist on our website, but with /mobile appended. For example: mysite.com/some-page/mobile
There appears to be a variety of user agents being used, including Chrome and Firefox. IP addresses appear to be from legitimate sources (i.e. the general public).
Any ideas where this could be coming from? Has there been any new technology released that could be looking for these pages, or is there perhaps a tool that someone in the marketing department has installed...
Update:
Answering a few comments here:
The Http Referrer data looks like these are legitimate users. The general activity on the site also makes it look like these are legitimate users - i.e. the number of pages visited and the traversal through those pages.
There is no consistency in referrers - most are from Google, which is normal, but some are from Bing or other websites.
Google Webmaster Tools does not indicate any crawl errors for these pages
No we are not a Tumblr site :)
My guess is this is a browser plugin of some sort...
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The first question I'd have is if you can identify the source leading to these error pages? Are they all direct? Or are they coming from a referral source? If you can pin down the source, you could correct the links at the source.
If they are all direct, then I'd be suspicious of some technology routing mobile visitors to a "/mobile" page. Can you tell what device these people are on who are reaching the "/mobile" pages? If you can, can you test your site on that device to see if you are redirected to that "/mobile" page? Perhaps there is some device targeting in the works.
I'm not sure where that would come from. Most of the mobile routing tools take you to a subdomain, not appending "/mobile". I would scan through builtwith.com to see what services are on your site currently and if any of those happen to do something where they'd try to create a mobile site.
And, just as a "throw it out there" idea, the only site I know of where "/mobile" works at the end is Tumblr. Adding /mobile to the end of a URL forces a mobile version of the page. As in:
example.tumblr.com/tagged/subfolder/
example.tumblr.com/tagged/subfolder/mobile
But I'm guessing you aren't on a Tumblr site. Though, if you recently migrated URLs over from your Tumblr site, perhaps some people are still looking for the "mobile" version? That seems like a reach, I'd check sources, devices, and what tools are on your site first.
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