Dec 14, 2019
Coverage Server Errors 5xx but these pages are non existent
I am getting these Coverage Server Errors 5xx but these pages that Google "detects" are non existent pages on my site and at no point have ever even existed. I don't understand why. I have tried submitting a Validation for them, only to get a Failed result in Google Search Console 3 weeks later.
Google still thinks these are valid pages although it's so obvious they are totally rubbish non-existent "pages/URLs". I am not a technical person at all, and I tried to dig into this by clicking on the Learn More link, which brought me to a Crawl Anomalies page. And I am seeing A LOT of non existent URLs that Google thinks are "Crawl Anomalies". It looks like these are generated by some software which I would not know about, and yet these whimsical URLs are still fooling Google. URLS such as (example domain only) https://www.my-site.com/grassygrass_s/grassygrass_s or.......https://www.my-site.com/exmachina/exmachina which seems totally bizarre to me.
I mean, what should I do? These are showing up as errors in my GSC and I worry Google may hold these "errors" as strikes against my site and penalize my site for them, when I have nothing to do with these Server 5xx Errors in the first place.
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