Many webmasters are affected from the weird issue: Google is indexing (at least crawling) non-existing URLs. The issue isn't depending of whether one uses Wordpress or other CMS. This question about
why Google is crawling and / or indexing non-existing URLs appears in all webmaster forums, Google Groups and so on, but without a clear solution.
The fact, that Googlebot creates and crawls a bunch of non-existing URLs, lets arise some questions:
- Where non existing URLs are coming from?
- Why is it not optimal, if non-existing URLs are crawled respectively indexed?
- How to minimize risks related to non-existing URLs?
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