: Google Webmaster Tools suddenly shows 1379 crawl errors Just checking GWT today and it's suddenly showing 1,379 crawl errors (404) but for the most non-sensical URL's that don't exist, for example...

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Just checking GWT today and it's suddenly showing 1,379 crawl errors (404) but for the most non-sensical URL's that don't exist, for example...
example.com/services/newsletters/services/contact

The only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without.

This is my .htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

# Trailing slash enforcement

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.example.com// [L,R=301]

# Returns WWW

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com
RewriteRule (.*) www.example.com/ [R=301,L]

# Removes index.php

RewriteCond !.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/ [L]

#Redirects old static .html pages to EE CMS

Redirect 301 /services.html /services
Redirect 301 /take-away.html /services/take-away
Redirect 301 /blog.html /blog
Redirect 301 /about.html /about
Redirect 301 /pin-up-studio.html /pin-up-studio
Redirect 301 /press.html /press
Redirect 301 /links.html /links
Redirect 301 /newsletter.html /newsletter
Redirect 301 /events.html /events
Redirect 301 /contact.html /contact
Redirect 301 /terms-and-conditions.html /terms-and-conditions
Redirect 301 /parties.html /services/party-package
Redirect 301 /gallery.html /gallery
Redirect 301 /bridal.html /services/bridal-styling
Redirect 301 /404.html /404

</IfModule>


Any ideas what I'd done wrong?

EDIT

So another 379 crawl errors have appeared in the last day. When I check the 'linked from' status it says it is being linked from the website itelf. An example is this URL is not found...
www.example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour/bridal-styling


...and lists these 2 URL's as the 'linked from'
example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour www.example.com/services/contact.html/bridal-styling/bridal-styling/services/party-package/take-away/contact/pop-up-parlour/

As I said before the only changes I've made recently have been setting the preferred domain to 'www' and updating the .htaccess file to redirect to 'www' as Google was showing some results with 'www' and some without.

My .htaccess file is as above.

It seems the bots seem to have got stuck in a loop when crawling the site? Not sure why it's getting hung up on the www and non www as I've specifically stated in GWT to use

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