URL punctuation

Most of the URL crawl errors listed by Google Webmaster Tools for my website are
mostly correct URLs, but with a comma or period at the end of the URL such as
/thisfile.htm. or /thisfile.htm,

Obviously these are links from other websites where the author put a period of comma
after the URL as part of his sentence format, but it doesn't work for the web.

Redirects don't work for this because they aren't valid addresses.

I would like to be able to redirect these to the correct URL and eliminate the crawl errors.

any ideas?

thanks
wiz

 

I think you are wrong since Google Webmaster tools do not concern about what others are doing with your URL, do you remember that you had to verify your site at the time of signing up with Google Webmaster tools since you had to give them the proof that this site belongs to you or you have the authority to access it. If it has nothing to do with your site then it probably won't ask you to verify the site.

So the error you are seeing now is nested somewhere within your site not with anyone else's. I have encountered plenty of such error in my site where I had a strong believe that these errors are not in my site rather these are coming from other sites from where I am getting my back links may be the problem lies over there.

But later after my through research I came to know that this is programmatic error, happened during coding, so please recheck your code from scratch in order to get it rectified. Otherwise it has no solution.

Once you rectify the code then come to Google webmaster tools and remove those wrong URL by using URL removal tool.

 

Thanks for your thoughtful reply, I'll seriously consider your advice.

However, it does remain that other sites and blogs have links to my site with punctuation errors, which do
generate 404 errors.

Any ideas about that?

wiz

 

I checked, and found that Google does report errors from outside sites.

When I am in Webmaster tools, click health, crawl errors, then "not found" errors it gives a list of the
bad URLs. The top one leaves off the ".htm"

I click on the URL and it brings up a window. It has a tab that says "linked from" and it shows 10
pages on external sites, including several pdfs and a couple of ask.reference.com.

I can't mark these as fixed because they are on external sites.

best regards
wiz

 

So everyone on the forum just lets these type of errors slide?

wiz