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I have a wordpress site which GWT reports hundreds of 404 errors, when trying to inspect the 'alleged' pages that output those dead links I find nothing.. There's something very particular in those errors, they are all long numbers (integers) appended to the url after a category, so it usually looks like .com/category-name/1234556780000

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The theme is a custom theme I built and the site currently runs wp3.4.2 and the following plugins:

  1. Custom Post Permalinks
  2. Disqus
  3. Gravity Forms + Mailchimp add on
  4. Wordpress SEO (yoast)
  5. Geolocation
  6. YARPP

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Any help or steps to try would be appreciated!

Thanks!

ps. EDIT: I know its somewhat similar to Wordpress translator plugin: Google Webmaster's Tools shows hundreds of 404 not found errors. How to clean the mess? but I never used that plugin..

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From where are those sites linked? Clicking on such a URL in GWT opens a popup with more data. – toscho♦ Sep 23 '12 at 1:39
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I seriously doubt this has anything to do with WordPress. This is most likely the work of some sort of bot. – Brian Fegter Sep 23 '12 at 1:49
@toscho they appear to be linked from inner pages of the site, but reviewing the source of the pages I couldn't find any of those links.. – Amit Sep 23 '12 at 2:35
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Please check out the official response from Google on this issue. – Pothi Kalimuthu Sep 23 '12 at 2:58
As you can read on the page Pothi has mentioned (here is more) it is a Google bug related to Disqus. It happens also on non WP sites. – toscho♦ Sep 23 '12 at 3:19
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closed as off topic by toscho♦ Sep 23 '12 at 3:17

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