By steff2009 on

Hi,

I'm seeing a lot of "404 not found" errors in Google Webmaster Tools about a page "www.example.com/undefined" which does exist at all in my site nor in my sitemap.xml

I can't understand where Google finds this link while scanning the site: has ever anybody come across this issue?

Thank you

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greylogic commented

Same here. I have also seen this happening with taxonomy links for my site. but mine happens in drupal 5.x though.
Any idea what's causing this?

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marcvangend
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"undefined" is typically something you see in javascript. My guess is that there is some kind of javascript/ajax function that wants to request a url, but doesn't know the path variable.

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steff2009 commented

Hi, there's no new js on my site and this "undefined" began only recently.

How can I check if I enabled something that caused this?

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marcvangend
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You could check if a referring page is logged with the 404 error (check your server logs as well), go to that page and see which scripts are running.

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steff2009 commented

I understood what it is: in a multilanguage site, if you create only one language version of a node and do not add the translation(s) immediately, when search engines crawl the site they see those missing translated nodes are reported as "undefined".

I found out because now I'm always transating each new node as soon as I create it and the "not found/undefined" errors no longer appear in Google WMT.