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Hi Support,
We're having an issue with some RSS feeds on one of our websites, firstcolumn.com. Google and other spiders are crawling the site and finding RSS feeds with URLs similar to this: https://www.firstcolumn.com/component/easyblog/tags/upgrade?Itemid=963%3fformat=feed&;type=rss
If you go to this URL in your browser, you'll receive a 1064 SQL Syntax error. Reviewing this, I've found that the %3f in the URL should be a &. When you go to the RSS feed referenced by this URL on the actual site, though, it comes up correctly, but with a different structure entirely (https://www.firstcolumn.com/blog/tags/upgrade?format=feed&;type=rss).
Any ideas as to what might be causing this syntax error?
We're having an issue with some RSS feeds on one of our websites, firstcolumn.com. Google and other spiders are crawling the site and finding RSS feeds with URLs similar to this: https://www.firstcolumn.com/component/easyblog/tags/upgrade?Itemid=963%3fformat=feed&;type=rss
If you go to this URL in your browser, you'll receive a 1064 SQL Syntax error. Reviewing this, I've found that the %3f in the URL should be a &. When you go to the RSS feed referenced by this URL on the actual site, though, it comes up correctly, but with a different structure entirely (https://www.firstcolumn.com/blog/tags/upgrade?format=feed&;type=rss).
Any ideas as to what might be causing this syntax error?
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