Ask HN: Google started to index non-hyperlinks. What to do about it? Never seen anything like this before. However, I noticed a massive spike of 404 errors in Search Console. I sampled a bunch and the issues and they all seem to be the same – Google indexed non-hyperlinks as if those were links. Here is an example of reported 404:
Search Console says it discovered a link to this page on:
If you inspect the source code of the page, there are no hyperlinks to that resource.There are now hundreds of thousands of these cases reported in GSC. I cannot even think of where/how to start troubleshooting this. |