For the past 4 days I have been getting the following error on my PickRent.com site:
Error on Page: http://www.pickrent.com/rentals/colorado/colorado-springs.cfm/ param: startRow=fdwjcymeklfnnz or startRow=dwpgddhufcgxz or startRow=rfdnvdpwhjoyrvc
Referral Page:
User’s IP: 66.249.68.170
Server Port: 80
Error Date: 6/21/09 3:40 PM
User’s Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
What is really odd is the trailing “/” at the end of the “.cfm”. Also odd is the URL parameter of “startRow=fdwjcymeklfnnz” which doesn’t exist. Only numbers can be used on that parameter.
I checked the IP address and it does belong to GoogleBot, but I have no idea where it is getting these random URL’s from. Perhaps it is going crazy or someone is linking to it that way.
I have fixed the issue now so it redirects home if this happens again, but I would love to know what caused this.

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2 users responded in this post
I see that from time to time too..
Why would Google do that? What are they hunting for?
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