Title: Google Webmaster Tools Errors – Over 100 Errors – Damage Control Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Google Webmaster Tools Errors – Over 100 Errors – Damage Control * [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/) * Okay, so my web master wasn’t telling me about these errors and I’m on damage control now. * **Heres what I’m dealing with:** * **Google Webmaster Tools Report:** Errors for URLs in Sitemaps – 48 Not found– 109 URLs not followed – 46 * **Details about my blog:** – I use it as a CMS with 900+ posts – My permalinks are modified into the google friendly [http://www.myblog.com/name-of-post](http://www.myblog.com/name-of-post)– My blog is installed in [http://www.myblog.com/wordpress](http://www.myblog.com/wordpress) but we have put the index in the root so that when you go to our site wordpess comes up immediately * **Info about Errors for URLS in Sitemap: (48)** This is perhaps what baffles me the most. When I look at my sitemap none of the pages that it references as error wrought (Redirect Errors) actually exist in the sitemap itself. The sitemap isnt telling google these things are there (and they aren’t) and yet google is telling me that they are. * An example of what I mean: Google is telling me there are redirect errors on page [http://www.myblog.com/wordpress/post-title](http://www.myblog.com/wordpress/post-title) Yet that page does not exist, if it did, it would be in the form of [http://www.myblog.com/post-title](http://www.myblog.com/post-title) NOT with the wordpress root in the URL. This kind of error is repeated countless times in the sitemap error reporter and I dont know what to do about it. * **Info about Not Found Errors (109)** Again, all of the errors are coming from pages that do not exist within my permalink structure – instead, its picking up on the /wordpress/ and not finding the pages. This time however, they are _all_ 404 errors. * **Info about URLS not Followed: (46)** Again. The errors are originating from URLS within /wordpress/ which dont actually exist. * I understand that is is quite a huge loud of errors but I have just been dropped into this and its time to compensate. I’m sure this is pulling us down into pagerank obscurity. * Any and all help is much appreciated, Thank you, Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037096) * I’ve contacted my host about this too but I doubt its a problem on their end. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037104) * > My blog is installed in [http://www.myblog.com/wordpress](http://www.myblog.com/wordpress) * And that is where everything physically is – WP does not like redirects. * If you want to not use the directory wordpress, follow the instructions for moving the blog. It is much cleaner than trying to use a redirect for every click of the mouse on your site. * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037116) * Think that will fix it? I will try this tonight. Believe it or not it was my server host who suggested I do the redirect. Damn dreamhost! * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037228) * Alright. I moved the entire installation into the root directory. I refreshed my permalinks, resubmitted my sitemap and told robots.txt to refuse access to/ wordpress/. * My sitemap has been received and so has my robots and no chance. * Any thoughts now? * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037300) * > My sitemap has been received and so has my robots and no chance. * Sorry, does this mean the same errors are happening? * You do have some errors, [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fraggednation.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fraggednation.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0), that should be cleared up. * Google shows your robot.txt file as successful (200). * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037311) * I ran your site through [http://validator.w3.org/checklink](http://validator.w3.org/checklink)( takes sometime) and there are a few problems but all in all the site is in pretty good shape. * You might post your sitemap URL. I can’t seem to find that. * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037313) * Unfortunately nothing has changed, * [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml) is my sitemap. * I’ll be back shortly from a meeting if you need any other information. * My sincerest thanks, * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037314) * Unfortunately nothing has changed, * [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml) is my sitemap. * I’ll be back shortly from a meeting if you need any other information. * My sincerest thanks, * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037315) * Unfortunately nothing has changed, * [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml) is my sitemap. * I’ll be back shortly from a meeting if you need any other information. * My sincerest thanks, * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037328) * Unfortunately nothing has changed, * [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml) is my sitemap. * I’ll be back shortly from a meeting if you need any other information. * My sincerest thanks, * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037329) * Wow! Didnt mean for that to happen, I kept getting a server error everytime I clicked post.. Sorry!! * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037337) * Sorry, I had been checking a different site coming from your link, [http://www.myblog.com/wordpress](http://www.myblog.com/wordpress) * Now for your site. You do have errors that need to be corrected, [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0) * Your links for the most part check out, [http://validator.w3.org/checklink](http://validator.w3.org/checklink) * Your robot.txt is ok. I am running a check against your sitemap now. * [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/) * (@kmessinger) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037338) * Currently viewing: [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/sitemap.xml) * View: sitemap.xml Sitemap summary Property Status Sitemap type Web Format Sitemap Submitted 12 minutes ago Last downloaded by Google 12 minutes ago Status OK Total URLs in Sitemap 1042 * Sitemap errors and warnings No errors or warnings found. * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037342) * Strange. Tools is still telling me I have files in /wordpress/ that have errors(/ wordpress/ doesnt exist) * > URL,Detail,Linked From,Problem Detected On > [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/european-science-education-research-association-esera-2009-conference,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/european-science-education-research-association-esera-2009-conference,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/27/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/excellence-in-education-2008-future-minds,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/excellence-in-education-2008-future-minds,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/27/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/first-international-conference-on-english-language-teaching-and-leaning,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/first-international-conference-on-english-language-teaching-and-leaning,Redirect) > 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[http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/how-we-live-how-we-learn-and-how-we-work-implications-for-the-prevention-and-treatment-of-childhood-obesity,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/how-we-live-how-we-learn-and-how-we-work-implications-for-the-prevention-and-treatment-of-childhood-obesity,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/27/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/inclusive-learning-2010-technologies-conference,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/inclusive-learning-2010-technologies-conference,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/23/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/instructional-supervision-international-schools-2,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/instructional-supervision-international-schools-2,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/28/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-conference-on-information-communication-technologies-in-education,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-conference-on-information-communication-technologies-in-education,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/17/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-conference-on-open-learning-and-distance-education,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-conference-on-open-learning-and-distance-education,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/23/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-conference-on-parent-education-and-parenting,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-conference-on-parent-education-and-parenting,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/28/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-teacher-certificate-institute-brazil,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/international-teacher-certificate-institute-brazil,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/21/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/just-read-florida,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/just-read-florida,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/20/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/nasspe-national-association-for-single-sex-public-education-4th-international-conference,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/nasspe-national-association-for-single-sex-public-education-4th-international-conference,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/23/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-art-education-association-annual-convention-2,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-art-education-association-annual-convention-2,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/27/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-association-for-gifted-children-annual-convention-2008,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-association-for-gifted-children-annual-convention-2008,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/15/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-association-of-elementary-school-principals,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-association-of-elementary-school-principals,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/17/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-association-of-secondary-school-principals-annual-convention-2,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-association-of-secondary-school-principals-annual-convention-2,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/21/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-conference-on-family-literacy-ncfl,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-conference-on-family-literacy-ncfl,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/20/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-council-of-less-commonly-taught-languages-12th-international-conference,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/national-council-of-less-commonly-taught-languages-12th-international-conference,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/27/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/near-east-south-asia-council-of-overseas-schools-spring-educators-conference,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/near-east-south-asia-council-of-overseas-schools-spring-educators-conference,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/28/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/professional-learning-communities-at-work-institute-5,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/professional-learning-communities-at-work-institute-5,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/15/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/second-language-research-forum,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/second-language-research-forum,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/27/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/singapore-math-the-fundamentals-2,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/singapore-math-the-fundamentals-2,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/23/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/staff-development-for-educators-sde-differentiated-instruction-administrator-summit,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/staff-development-for-educators-sde-differentiated-instruction-administrator-summit,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/21/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/staff-development-training-for-teaching-thinking-coaching-techniques-and-workshop-design,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/staff-development-training-for-teaching-thinking-coaching-techniques-and-workshop-design,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/23/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/systems-thinking-and-dynamic-modeling-conference-for-k-12-education,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/systems-thinking-and-dynamic-modeling-conference-for-k-12-education,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/27/09 [http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/the-6th-annual-alternative-education-resource-organization%E2%80%99s-aero-conference,Redirect](http://www.educatorsprofessionaldevelopment.com/wordpress/the-6th-annual-alternative-education-resource-organization%E2%80%99s-aero-conference,Redirect) > error,unavailable,3/23/09 * and on and on. * Could the css errors and bad markup be really having an effect? * Thread Starter [happypenguin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happypenguin/) * (@happypenguin) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/#post-1037343) * Here’s what I’ve done in the meantime: I went into tools and selected Remove Urls and asked google to remove the entire /wordpress/ directory. We’ll see if anything comes of it (takes a few apparently). Maybe this is my problem.. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Google Webmaster Tools Errors – Over 100 Errors – Damage Control’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/errors/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 17 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Yohan Perera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevirtualpreacher/) * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/google-webmaster-tools-errors-over-100-errors-damage-control/page/2/#post-1037529) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics