Outbound Link Summary:
12 years ago
A Bug in Google Webmaster Tools?
One of the sites I host for a friend recently experienced an “increase in not found errors” at Google’s Webmaster Tools.
Looking through the list of corresponding URLs I noticed that most of them contain parts of an image element’s title attribute, like:
![](/path/to/image "some description with
<a href="http://domain.tld/some/path">some link</a>")
In effect, the faulty link Google is complaining about looks like this:
Do the webmaster tools interpret the href in the title attribute as ordinary link attribute or is the HTML flawed? What is going on?