I keep coming across malformed urls in Google like this one :

Google Indexing Errors

Notice (www .. what’s all that about then.

DaveN

DaveN

4 Comments

  • 1

    Could it be the way tjoos has it’s mod_rewrite set up? Like this:

    http://www.aboutus.org/DavidNaylor.co.uk

    Shark SEO | http://sharkseo.com

    21st November 2008 @ 09:37

  • 2

    Oh hang about, hadn’t seen the start of the second URL.. That’s, er.. that’s just wrong.

    Shark SEO | http://sharkseo.com

    21st November 2008 @ 12:25

  • 3

    Well, the URL works (wildcard DNS + no host header checks on the server – it even works with the IP address) and has links, so it would be something that we could index. It’s shown with &filter=0 to me, so it wouldn’t generally show up in the results next to the other URL.

    The proper solution would be for the server to either 301 redirect to the preferred version or just not use wildcard DNS (make this URL invalid).

    John Mueller

    22nd November 2008 @ 15:22

  • 4

    Not so much Google indexing errors, but schoolboy implementation errors by the Server-Admin of the site involved then…

    g1smd

    10th December 2008 @ 00:24

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