New Googlebot request

With keywords

[Newman]

I have today in log file Googlebot request:

64.68.82.30 - - [16/Jul/2003:07:12:34 -0500] "GET /+keyword1%20keyword2 HTTP/1.0" 302 298 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"

What is that? Something new?

[bolitto]

>What is that? Something new?

Yeah, a syntax error on some link on your site ;)

[web_young]

I'm having the same issue. In the log file it looks like this: pagename.htm%3Fsource%3Dgoogle

I think Google is spidering our adwords and not replacing the %3F with a? and %3D with an =. The %20 means there's a space in a URL. It could be a broken link to your site that Google is trying to access. Just make sure you have a custom missing.html page on your site and it should be ok.

[g1smd]

If you are lucky, a search for that /+keyword1%20keyword2 might just turn up the page it is on, if it has been like that a while.

I have a friend who was getting a lot of requests for a page called /contact.htm%20 which always failed. Using google to search for domain.com/contact.htm%20 quickly located the offending page and site. It was simply someone with a dodgy cut and paste when they made the links on their page.

They had a: <a href="http:www.domain.com/contact.htm ">
instead of: <a href="http:www.domain.com/contact.htm">

A short email to the site owner resulted in the link being fixed in a few days.

[thewebboy]

I had something similar too, Googlebot requested /26kw%3Dweb+hosting&cs%3DBG9Lme

I think a site linking to mine made a mistake and google happened to follow that link.

[Powdork]

What's up with the 302 redirect instead of a 404?