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Ana Tafarello
Ana Tafarello

Reputation: 11

Google indexed a page that doesn't exist

There is something very weird happening on a website I'm working with. When I do a research on Google about a product of the website, the return result is a page that doesn't exist but it doesn't return a 404 error.

The "page.html" does exist, but it is not on the path that Google found, the URL is somehow being created out of nowhere, and since it is inside Joomla, it is causing some visual errors.

I've done some research, and a-lot of people have this kind of error, but normally the page is a 404 or a duplicated version. In my case, the page opens normally, the only thing is that the "page.html" is somehow being put on a path that is not correct. I've already checked inside the folders and there is not a duplicated page inside them.

What could be happening?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1021

Answers (1)

Hayden Couvillon
Hayden Couvillon

Reputation: 11

If this is a website you host, you can mark the page as a nofollow. If not, Google Search has a beta feature called "About this Result" in which you can leave feedback telling Google the page does not exist. Also, if you reach a 404 page, Web Crawlers will find it on their own eventually.

Upvotes: 1

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