Hi there,

I'm not 100% this problem is directly related to Views RSS module, but as all the unfound URLs involve feed paths, I thought I should report it here.

Basically when I look at my Drupal 7 sites in Google Webmaster Tools, I notice that it has logged quite a few 404 errors trying to access feeds everywhere. None of the URLs exist on the website or on my sitemap, so I can't work out where they are coming from. When I say I notice it most often with my feeds I mean this:

- I have a working newsfeed at /news.rss (fine)

- Google will log a 404 by trying to access a path such as: node/add/news.rss - where essentially there is no usable content to make a feed from... usually the paths are related to modules so for example on a site using the email field module i'd get: email/node/124/news.rss logging an error.

- Whereas any content pages e.g. root/to/page/news.rss - will happily show the page at root/

I have no contextual filters on the views involved, as all the content type selection is done through normal filters, but it seems as if there is something in the behaviour of the views rss (or views itself) feed that is causing incorrect redirects that the Googlebots do not like much...

Has anyone else experienced this, either with Views RSS/Views or Drupal itself?

Google says "These unexpected URLs may be generated by Googlebot trying to follow links found in JavaScript, Flash files, or other embedded content." - can there be something in the module doing this?

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maciej.zgadzaj CreditAttribution: maciej.zgadzaj commented
Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I don't think this has anything to do with this module. Google tends to do some funny URL/site "testing" (see for example 1, 2, 3), so some 404s are perfectly normal.

Also, if you're seeing those in GWT, after clicking on each Not found link in Crawl Errors you can see where it was Linked from (if it really was) and then take appropriate action.