Webmaster URL Errors

[Ashleyuk1984]

Hey,
I check Google Webmaster regularly, and I've been finding that I get alot of URL errors. But I don't know how to prevent it? It seems to be errors from other websites which I have no control over.

[slide]http://ultraimg.com/images/I1evq.png[/slide]

[slide]http://ultraimg.com/images/Z1TVI.png[/slide]

Any ideas on how to solve this problem? Should I keep marking them as fixed? Or just leave it?

 

[Smith]

From what I can tell, your image links have an extra keyword on the end: "Publisher", "Scene", "Features" etc.

Get exact URL of page where the error occurs and double-check image code.

 

[Ashleyuk1984]

Hi,
The image url is perfectly fine to begin with. However the extra bits on the end of the URL's "Publisher / Scene / Features" are not generated by my website. They are generated by other websites which are being crawled by Google bots, but it's causing errors in my webmaster account.

So for example, if I upload an image, and I'm given the URL http://www.ultraimg.com/images/LYePx.jpg
But if someone posts this on their forum / blog, and for some reason they don't code it correctly, and therefore it's given the URL something like this http://www.ultraimg.com/images/LYePx.jpgPublisher

Then once that has been crawled, that incorrect URL shows up as an error on my webmaster account :S

In theory it's correct as the URL is generating a 404, but I'm being punished for other people / website mistakes. Just wondering if there's any solution?

 

[Smith]

Oh, right, you own the image host.

Well in that case, there is nothing you can do. He is pretty much hotlinking to your website so when Google reads your image on his website, it goes to your website where then 404 error pops.

 

[soft2050]

In theory it's correct as the URL is generating a 404, but I'm being punished for other people / website mistakes. Just wondering if there's any solution?

You are not being punished in any way, stop caring about it: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2409439

However, what you can do is what this states:

A simple htaccess redirect could help i.e. 301 redirect http://www.ultraimg.com/images/LYePx.jpgPublisher to http://www.ultraimg.com/images/LYePx.jpg