How can I fix New 4XX Issue on Site Crawl?
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Hi all,
My recent site crawl shows 27 4xx issues on this website http://www.rrbusinessconsultants.com/
All of them are for 'posts' on this wordpress website.
Here is an example of the issue: http://www.rrbusinessconsultants.com/rr-business-consultants-on-the-rise-of-glassdoor-and-how-companies-are-coping/void(null)
The blog page seems to be creating links ending in void(null) which are defaulting to 404 pages.
I cannot see the links on the site so cannot see how to remove them. Can anyone provide any insight into how to correct his issue?
Many thanks in advance.
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Andrew is right: Yoast uses different code for breadcrumbs.
I would start searching inside the theme-files for:
"void(null);" or "void(" or "ilny-breadcrumbs"That should give you a clue to where the code actually is inside your theme.
To show the difference: Yoast's plugin produces code like this:
Hope this helps a bit as well.
Bas
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Hi Stacey! How is this going? We'd love an update.
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By the way, you will also want to add a CSS rule for your anchor links in the breadcrumbs, as right now they are transparent. I would add a line of code to your style.css file like this:
.ilny-breadcrumbs a { color: #c0392b; }
Assuming of course that this is the color of red you'd like to use for the link text.
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Without looking at the template code, it's really difficult to say what's going on. I didn't find a definite match in terms of known issues with Yoast's breadcrumbs. Looking at the body class declaration in your markup, I would assume this particular page is generated by single.php or a similarly named file. Do you have access to the theme's source files where you could paste in the code from this file?
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Thanks!
We believe it is the YOAST SEO Plugin.
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The first step would be to identify what plugin is being used to generate the breadcrumbs. If you can provide that info, I could research that plugin for any known issues and/or review it's codebase. This may or may not be all we need to do to resolve the issue but it's a good first step.
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Hi, I believe this is probably the case.
However, not knowing too much about breadcrumbs I am unsure what sort of 'offending code' I would be looking for and how to resolve the issue.
Could you offer some advice please?
Thank you.
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In general, the Moz site crawl should point out the page(s) in which the offending link was found, and this is always a good place to start to track down the underlying cause.
I am finding your issue in the breadcrumbs of the post detail page itself. Looking at the source code of http://www.rrbusinessconsultants.com/rr-business-consultants-on-the-rise-of-glassdoor-and-how-companies-are-coping/ I find this HTML code snippet within the breadcrumbs:
[](<a class="html-attribute-value html-external-link" href="http://www.rrbusinessconsultants.com/rr-business-consultants-on-the-rise-of-glassdoor-and-how-companies-are-coping/void(null);" target="_blank">void(null);</a>)
Since you are using Wordpress, I would assume the site is using a breadcrumbs plugin, and this is likely going to be your culprit. My advice would be to inspect the plugin in use and any code or shortcodes that are being used to generate the site breadcrumbs. You'll likely find some offending code causing this unnecessary anchor tag. If you need any additional help, please let me know!
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Hi Stacey,
When I inspect the page, I can see that there is something in your header that seems to be injecting this. It appears to be at the end here:
- R&R Business Consultants Inc./ Latest News / R&R Business / R&R Business Consultants on the rise of Glassdoor and how companies are coping****
If I were you, I would check out the header file first to see if you can see the 'void' bit. It isn't supposed to be there so might be something that has been left there unintentionally.
-Andy
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