slew of 404 errors on google webmaster tools to plugins/feedback.php file

Question

Got a notification from google webmaster tools that the number of 404 errors have gone up considerably, on inspecting the crawl errors I see a lot of errors to something that shouldn't there:

webmaster tools

I checked the source code but didnt find a mention of said URL so dont know where google is getting is from. This plugin directory doesn't even exist. Its a WordPress installation so theres a wp-content/plugins folder but no plugins/ folder.

What could be going on.. why is google trynna index a non existent URL and getting a 404.

Site URL is http://ladiesnightandbrunchesdubai.com Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This URL comes from Facebook Comments plugin. As it is not absolute URL, Google crawler thinks it is pointing to your website.

This probably didn't happen before either because:

1) Google crawler recently started execute more and more javascript - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.be/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html If this is the case, we could encounter more problems like this with 3rd party scripts on our website.

2) maybe Facebook comments plugin didn't have relative URLs

Solution:

Tell Google not to crawl these URLs by adding them to robots.txt

Disallow: /plugins/feedback.php