In the GSC page indexing issues: Found a URL with a two different file names

plumb_pete

Strange URLs in Search Console's Page with a redirect, Alternate page with Proper Canonical Tag' Search Console is showing 240 excluded pages with 'Page with a redirect, Alternate Page with Proper Canonical Tag etc'. The URLs are something like this and it is almost found in all the errors. https://www.syoft.com/mobile-app-development.php/devops.php (Not the target page, but it's still under excluded list hence I wanted to fix) The above page...

Originally asked by Navya Dodi on Stack Exchange (webmasters) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You have a commented-out link to /devops.php on your /services/mobile-app-development.php. If this was live, search engines would follow the link, which would result in the strange URLs you see. Even commented out, Google may decide to check it out anyhow.

Full answer by Tony McCreath: https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/142126 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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