Why is Google Webmaster Tools crawling invalid URLS and showing 500 errors?

Posted by Amos Kane on Pro Webmasters See other posts from Pro Webmasters or by Amos Kane
Published on 2012-04-06T21:23:53Z Indexed on 2012/04/06 23:40 UTC
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Google Webmaster tools is reporting 12k+ 500 errors. Eeek!

None of the URLS are valid- they all contain www.youtube.com. First, why is Google crawling these URLS if they don't exist? I supplied a sitemap, and they are of course not in the sitemap.

I don't have a robots.txt blocking anything. I've checked for invalid redirects--none, and checked for unclosed tags or something that would throw www.youtube.com into the URL by accident--none.

In every 'linked from', the referring URL is also a bad URL, with www.youtube.com in it. The Google Tools report no malware, and I can't check the server logs because the host won't give me access.

Really stuck!! Any ideas appreciated!

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