Why is Google Webmaster Tools crawling invalid URLS and showing 500 errors?
- by Amos Kane
Google Webmaster tools is reporting 12k+ 500 errors. Eeek!
None of the URLS are valid- they all contain www.youtube.com. First, why is Google crawling these URLS if they don't exist? I supplied a sitemap, and they are of course not in the sitemap.
I don't have a robots.txt blocking anything. I've checked for invalid redirects--none, and checked for unclosed tags or something that would throw www.youtube.com into the URL by accident--none.
In every 'linked from', the referring URL is also a bad URL, with www.youtube.com in it. The Google Tools report no malware, and I can't check the server logs because the host won't give me access.
Really stuck!! Any ideas appreciated!