Increase in 404 Errors after update

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colgate
#150809
Jan 2, 2017 at 2:54 pm

Hi TagDiv Team.

I have noticed that the number of 404 errors (mobile) has increased. I had an email from Google Webmaster saying that the number of 404 mobile errors has increased. Errors have started after the last update.

Please see a screenshot http://imgur.com/a/bKGlL . For some reason, the letter ‘m’ and word ‘mobile’ are automatically added to nearly all links, so instead of serving the users with this: http://www.website.com/tag/cars-for-sale/ they see this: http://www.website.com/m/tag/cars-for-sale/ or http://www.website.com/mobile/tag/cars-for-sale/ which is an 404 error page, because the link doesn’t exist.

Thanks

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nairolf
#150827
Jan 2, 2017 at 9:58 pm

Hi guys,
¡Happy New Year!

Same here.
I think that is some problem from GoogleBot or Yoast because I receive the same errors in all my sites (Newspaper & different WordPress themes).

Note: I’m still using 7.4v from september, so is not the last update.

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Bogdan B.
#150968
Jan 3, 2017 at 2:50 pm

Hello,

Google recently changed their algorithm and people confuse this with the theme update which came out at the same approximate time.

Thanks.

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colgate
#151000
Jan 3, 2017 at 3:55 pm

Hi Bogdan B., nairolf,

I am not sure why Google bot is scanning for links that actually don’t exist? It seems to add ‘m’ and ‘mobile’ before every URL link with a tag string, generating 100s or 404 error codes. It is confusing and annoying.

Regards

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nairolf
#151011
Jan 3, 2017 at 4:19 pm

Hi Colgate,
Mark them as fixed.

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