Web master tools is throwing out 404 errors on link not on page

Posted by plantify on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by plantify
Published on 2012-12-05T16:35:37Z Indexed on 2012/12/05 17:27 UTC
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Webmaster tools is showing thousands of 404 errors, where pages on the site are referring to another incorrect url. For example, URL not found www.plantify.co.uk/shop/=, linked from http://www.plantify.co.uk/shop/gift-voucher and http://www.plantify.co.uk/shop/special-plant-offers.

I obviously have checked the source and cannot find any references to this link on any page.

The only consistent issue is that it only seems to report this error on pages with two section i.e. www.plantify.co.uk/shop does not report any error whilst all pages with www.plantify.co.uk/shop/xxx (where xxx can be several different pages such as gift-voucher) all report this.

I cannot seem to duplicate this error. I have run a link checker (we use Screaming Frog) and it does not report this error. I have fetched these pages as a bot, and these do not report this error.

I am at a total loss. I cannot even duplicate the issue, but it is most definitely an issue, as Webmaster Tools is reporting new errors every day.

Is this perhaps google bot doing its own thing?

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