Title: [Plugin: Google Analytics for WordPress] 404 Errors in Google Webmaster Tools
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google Analytics for WordPress] 404 Errors in Google Webmaster Tools

 *  [twdblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twdblog/)
 * (@twdblog)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-analytics-for-wordpress-404-errors-in-google-webmaster-tools/)
 * I noticed on my Crawl Error page in my Google Webmaster Tools account that I 
   am getting over 1,000 404 errors all due to outgoing links being modified by 
   having the root domain plus a subfolder named “out” put in front of them. For
   example, the external link [http://www.healthreform.gov/](http://www.healthreform.gov/)
   on a particular post shows up in Webmaster Tools as [http://www.thewealthydentist.com/out/www.healthreform.gov/](http://www.thewealthydentist.com/out/www.healthreform.gov/),
   and is flagged as a 404. Looking at the live page, there is no problem and the
   external links work fine and are not modified. This only occurs within my Google
   Webmaster Tools account. I also noticed that this has only been occurring since
   11/28/11, and that my Google Analytics for WordPress plugin (ver. 4.2.2) had 
   been deactivated. Not sure when it was deactivated or if it has anything at all
   to do with the problem, but it may be a clue. I also reactivated the plugin today.
   Any ideas???
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [twdblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twdblog/)
 * (@twdblog)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-analytics-for-wordpress-404-errors-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-2474454)
 *  Thread Starter [twdblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twdblog/)
 * (@twdblog)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-analytics-for-wordpress-404-errors-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-2474456)
 *  Thread Starter [twdblog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twdblog/)
 * (@twdblog)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-analytics-for-wordpress-404-errors-in-google-webmaster-tools/#post-2474457)
 * Here’s the underlying script associate with the the outbound link mentioned above…
 * (this is between ‘a’ tags)
 * onclick=”javascript:_gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’, ‘/out/www.healthreform.gov/’]);”
   href=”[http://www.healthreform.gov/](http://www.healthreform.gov/) ” onclick=”
   javascript:_gaq.push([‘_trackEvent’,’outbound-article’,’[http://www.healthreform.gov’%5D](http://www.healthreform.gov’%5D));”
   target=”_blank”>heath insurance reform
 * Is this being generated by the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin?

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