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#4361 – Aliases

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Monday, 27 November 2017 21:01 UTC

rjasper-isw4b-com

Hi,

I have all Recording options turned on through configuration.

I run SEMRush to test the new aliases I have set up (tried both canonical and 301 redirects).
SEMRush indicates duplicate content for 4 items:

xxxx.com/sample-content/page-2?filter_tag[0]=
xxxx.com/sample-content
xxxx.com/sample-content/page-2
http://xxxx.com/sample-content/donec-nunc-magna-posuere

I have set these urls up as aliases through sh404SEF but they are still found with duplicate content when I crawl xxxx.com

I have setup super-user: xxxx pwd: xxxx

Wondering what I am either doing incorrectly or not doing?

Thanks for your help.

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 09:32 UTC

wb_weeblr

I have all Recording options turned on through configuration.

You should not. The "Record URLs source" is a debug feature, and it stores very large volume of information. you should disable it right away. The others stores much less information and can be left enabled in production.

I run SEMRush to test the new aliases I have set up (tried both canonical and 301 redirects).

Testing this aliases is done in your browser, not in SEMRush. What SEMRush does is not relevant to us really.

I have set these urls up as aliases through sh404SEF but

What have you done exactly? For instance, if I visit http://xxxx.com/sample-content/donec-nunc-magna-posuere, I am not redirected to another page, so it seems you have not created any alias for it. So what have you done exactly for this URL?

Rgds

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 15:42 UTC

rjasper-isw4b-com

Hi,

I've included a screenshot of one of the alias records I created (301 redirect - although canonical link got the same result).

When I paste http://xxxx.com/sample-content/page-2?filter_tag[0]= into my browser I expect to go to http://xxxx.com/sample-content/

but this doesn't happen.

What do you think is wrong?

Also, as per your recommendation, I've turned recordi URL's off.

I know this takes space in the database, but I am debugging.

Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:11 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

The alias is not correct indeed.

1 - You should not include the domain for aliases, as aliases are always on your own site
2 - If you have a query variable (ie ?filter_tag[0]=), this query var is going to be appended back to the target URL, as in:

sample-content/page-2?filter_tag[0]= will go to http://xxxx.com/sample-content/?filter_tag[0]=

3 - So I would suggest you use a wildcard as in:

Alias: sample-content/page-2{*}
Target URL: /sample-content/

Rgds

Wednesday, 13 December 2017 05:34 UTC

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