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  • #415685

    Amy Fox
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    I’m hoping someone can help me.

    Been looking at my google webmaster tool for my website and looked at internal links.

    It’s reporting that I have 62k internal links across my website, almost all are 404 errors, have I set a geodirectory setting wrong or is it an error with the webmaster tools?

    Almost all are location links, it’s like it has an internal link for all locations in the UK that show as 404.

    All end in /feed/

    Thanks.

    #415692

    Amy Fox
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    It seems as though its saving all old links and searches from somewhere, does geodirectory have a cache that its reading or does yoast not read caches.

    #415707

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    Have you set your GD Permalinks to include the full location in the URL?

    If you make changes to the GD Permalinks settings, do make a visit to WP > Settings > Permalinks and resave your permalinks settings there.

    Are the URLs actually 404?

    https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/core-permalinks/#url

    #415726

    Amy Fox
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    Post count: 419

    Thanks for the reply, I have set geodirectory – permalinks include add location slug and add full location plus use category slug.

    I have the WP settings – permalinks set to post name.

    With the 2 being set different will it cause issues?

    The yoast sitemap has a section for each category called location full site map, in that sitemap it has a list of location/category.

    When I click on the link it’s almost as though it has saved searches done by us when we have been checking coverage for each category.

    Google webmaster tolls says my homepage for example has 62,540 internal links to the page, when I select the links to see what its from I get a;

    Not Found
    This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?
    It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try a search?

    I’m so confused and I have no idea why these bad links are there.

    Thanks

    #415727

    Amy Fox
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    Post count: 419

    Listing URL prefix is also set as places, I dont use the CPT anymore though as I created my own.

    #415728

    Amy Fox
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    Post count: 419

    Also just noticed that google webmaster tool is saying that Crawl errors for desktop is at 12000, they are 404 errors.

    That can’t be correct?

    #415734

    Alex Rollin
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    Post count: 27815

    Hello,

    please allow us to take a look and see if we can find the problem.

    You can create a private reply here with your site URL and WP Admin credentials to allow us to review your settings

    #415744

    Gareth Fox
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    #415746

    Amy Fox
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    #415752

    Alex Rollin
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    #415757

    Amy Fox
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    #415760

    Alex Rollin
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    Ah! Most of the GD Permalinks are not set, that is the issue.

    I was checking through the sitemaps and couldn’t find any links that said “/feed/” per se, but I think the Google-y interface you were reading was talking in ‘code’ but if you have one of those links, you can feel free to share it, in case it is something different.

    For this permalinks issue, though –

    Easily fixed: You can set a page for each entry at GD > Permalinks

    If the pages don’t yet exist, you can add them manually, or go to GD Tools > Page check and it will create them for you (only if they don’t yet exist).

    Once you’ve done that, be sure to visit WP > Settings > Permalinks and re-save the settings there.

    Let us know how it goes.

    #415763

    Amy Fox
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    #415768

    Alex Rollin
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    #415773

    Amy Fox
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