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Stop duplicate Errors killing my SEO

Asked by Gerald W. 4 years ago Last activity 4 years ago

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Anne Staff
4 years ago · edited

Hello there

Thanks for contacting us. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please allow us some time. I am checling the issue and will get back to you.

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Gerald W. Asked this

How can I help you resolve this faster? I am available today from 10:30am to 5pm MDT

Anne Staff
4 years ago · edited

Hello Gerald W

Please take our sincere apology for the unwanted delay. Please follow this blogs:

https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/six-ways-to-improve-your-joomla-site-s-seo
https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/joomla-3-4-and-seo-tips

https://www.joomshaper.com/blog/make-your-joomla-site-seo-friendly

You can check this too . https://www.joomlashine.com/blog/solving-joomla-duplicate-content.html

Are you facing any type of issue on your site? Let us know about it.

-Regards

Gerald W. Asked this

These articles are generic and do not cover my issue. Did you look at the informaion I provided? This is a pagebuilder specific error as far as I can tell.

How do I prevent SEO duplicate errors from showing as follows

https://domain.com/component/sppagebuilder/?view=page&id=56
https://domain.com/easi-set-precast-restroom-buildings-single

view page is not an error I get on any of my other non-page builder sites.

Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
4 years ago · edited

If I may....

Google index only what could index, so if somehow in content you used old link with "?view=page&id=56" probably Google indexed and remember it. And Yes, It's very common mistake.

My suggestion is:

  1. Go to Google Search Console and manually remove (request to remove) that "wrong" not needed URL.
  2. Search database (you can use also Joomla component or PHPMyAdmin) for that link, and correct link. Of course, do not change in Menu table.
  3. Add redirection for that link in htaccess or by using Akeeba Tool > URL Redirection.
  4. Then wait for Google response.

As I saw Your website sitemap.xml now is correct, so it was perhaps a single incident.

Gerald W. Asked this

No that is not the issue. This website was never published with that URL. The website was developed non-published and not indexed in development.

Paul Frankowski Senior Staff
4 years ago · edited

So from where you know that you have duplicate that may harm your SEO?

Every Joomla component, even core Articles, have two possible links: default long one and short if it was added to menu, as menu item. And Google index only that one who can see or website or sitemap.

Gerald W. Asked this
  1. https://leesburgconcrete.com/component/sppagebuilder/?view=page&id=56
  2. https://leesburgconcrete.com/easi-set-precast-restroom-buildings-single

How do I stop sppagebuilder from creating a direct non-menu link? I have installed canonical URLS. I have checked the sitemap and these non-menu URLs do not appear. I have never used the non-menu link.
SEMRush is treating the SPPageBuilder links as
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