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#9070 – To follow up on my previous question #9057

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Tuesday, 27 September 2022 12:54 UTC

SimonD

Hello,

First I would like to thank you for the answer to my previous question #9057.
I would like to come back to the subject because I have now become a happy customer of 4SEO.

After having launched an analysis of the pages, I find in the list some pages having a URL of the type :
?view=category&id=11

I don't know why 4SEO found these pages.
I did a quick search in the content of the articles (CONTENT: category&id) and I did not find anything.

Anyway I don't want these pages to be indexed.
Ideally I would like the url
https://www.example.fr/?view=category&id=11
to be redirected to
https://www.example.fr/technologies/presentation
But I believe that it is not possible to create a 301 redirect for URL parameters.

If I'm not mistaken, I still have the possibility of :
- choose NO Index - NO Follow
or
- change the canonical url to https://www.example.fr/technologies/presentation

I can also ask that this unwanted URL is not included in the sitemap.

There is a DELETE button above the page table.
What is it for ?

Thanks

Tuesday, 27 September 2022 15:39 UTC

wb_weeblr

I don't know why 4SEO found these pages.

I don't know either. 4SEO analyzes the raw content of each page on your website, starting at your home page. It looks for links inside each page, and then repeat the process for each link it finds.

So if you see these pages listed by 4SEO on the Pages page, then somewhere inside at least one page of your site, there is such a link.

But I believe that it is not possible to create a 301 redirect for URL parameters.

There's no limit on the redirects you can create.

If I'm not mistaken, I still have the possibility of :

- choose NO Index - NO Follow

or

- change the canonical url to https://www.example.fr/technologies/presentation

If you have only a limited number of these, a better solution is to replace them. Use the Replacer rules to replace "/?view=category&id=11" with "/technologies/presentation". That way, the will not be visible at all.

The actual solution is to try and find pages where these links are created. Inside articles is not the right place to look. You need to look into the website pages source code and search for "view=category&id=".

There is a DELETE button above the page table.

What is it for ?

It will delete the data recorded for that page in 4SEO database. However, if the corresponding links still exist in your site, 4SEO will sooner or later find it again, and the page will come back.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Wednesday, 28 September 2022 09:20 UTC

SimonD

Hello Yannick,

Many thanks for your reply.

I took your advice and did several replacements.

To be sure I understand, are these replacements actually made in the Joomla! content (articles)?
Or are they done in 4SEO's own data?

Is there any way to verify that they are working properly?

Should I run a page analysis again?

Do I have to restart the sitemap creation ?

Thank you
Simon Delmotte

Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:28 UTC

wb_weeblr

To be sure I understand, are these replacements actually made in the Joomla! content (articles)?

I think you are wrongly assuming these links are inside some articles. That's possible but not at all the only options. They can be created by your template, by modules, by extensions on your site, ...

Or are they done in 4SEO's own data?

Neither. The Joomla articles are not touched. We apply the replacement dynamically when the page is being built by Joomla.

Is there any way to verify that they are working properly?

Not until you understand where these links are created and by what. If you don't, you don't know where to look.

And if you do, well, you don't need the replacement rules, you can just fix the original problem.

Should I run a page analysis again?

Do I have to restart the sitemap creation ?

The sitemap is always updated automatically, you do not have anything to do. If these "bad" links where in the sitemap, then yes, I'd suggest clearing the analysis to starta fresh one.

Best regards

Yannick Gaultier

weeblr.com / @weeblr

Wednesday, 28 September 2022 17:41 UTC

SimonD

Hello Yannick,

Many thanks for your reply.

Best regards

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