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#8448 – URLs with duplicate titles - Canoical Rules - How?

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Wednesday, 19 January 2022 12:28 UTC
gros-gros-at

Please help me

On my site i have reports of URLs with duplicate titles, duplicate Description...

https://www.[redacted].at/

https://www.[redacted].at/index.php

https://www.[redacted].at/index.php/

I should solve this with canoical rules? How exactly would this rule look like.

 

 

Wednesday, 19 January 2022 12:31 UTC
wb_weeblr

Hi

On my site i have reports of URLs with duplicate titles, duplicate Description..

Reported where? by 4SEO? by an external tool?

I should solve this with canoical rules? How exactly would this rule look like.

If these pages are actually found on your site (ie you have links to /index.php and /index.php/), the correct fix is to remove these links and replaced them with direct links to /.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

 

 
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 12:53 UTC
gros-gros-at

Sorry yes an external tool: SeRanking (https://online.seranking.com)

All of those links are actually the same page but reported as different pages with all the implications as mentioned above.

Its not that easy for someone who is kind of an amateur to get different tools report different problems.

(like my ticket before where different tools report different http-Status codes for the 1px images 4Seo creates. One report 200 and one 4xx and but tool-provider claims they are right - the user is lost in translation ;) (I have chosen to ignore that 4xx-Problem.

 

 

 

Wednesday, 19 January 2022 14:24 UTC
wb_weeblr

Hi

Sorry yes an external tool: SeRanking (https://online.seranking.com)

All of those links are actually the same page but reported as different pages with all the implications as mentioned above.

So first, that's not really a problem from an SEO standpoint. Search engines won't really care about that because it's only 3 pages, with roughly the same content. Ideally, there should be a canonical there indeed but I'm not sure why 4SEO is not generating them. Did you disable anything in the Pages | Settings configuration?

- What I noticed is that you "Startseite" menu item goes to https://www.[redacted].at/index.php instead of https://www.[redacted].at/ so that's something you must fix, you're creating a visible duplicate here.

- also I think you should start using URL rewriting in your Joomla configuration. All your URLs are using an /index.php/ bit such as https://www.[redacted].at/index.php/menuausbildungen/menulsb and that's not best both for URL readibility but also because it will have side effects, for instance on some 404s handling. 

(like my ticket before where different tools report different http-Status codes for the 1px images 4Seo creates. One report 200 and one 4xx and but tool-provider claims they are right - the user is lost in translation ;) (I have chosen to ignore that 4xx-Problem.

And rightly so. These are non-problems.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

 

 
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 16:08 UTC
gros-gros-at

Hmm I think i only added the Mainadress www.[redacted].at on page 1

I enabled URL-Rewriting

 

Thank you!

Wednesday, 19 January 2022 17:13 UTC
wb_weeblr

Hi

I enabled URL-Rewriting

And so now the link to https://www.[redacted].at/ under "StartSeite" has gone back to https://www.[redacted].at/ as it should. So you won't get any more warning about that I'm sure.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

 

 
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