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#4670 – 301 instead of canonical?

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Friday, 16 February 2018 01:05 UTC
iusab
 Hi,

So i have the alias allt-om-hogskoleprovet/hogskoleprovet-2018 but i would like to 301-forward it to just hogskoleprovet-2018.

When i add allt-om-hogskoleprovet/hogskoleprovet-2018 to alias field for hogskoleprovet-2018 i get error in Swedish:

Kunde inte spara. Fel: Alias allt-om-hogskoleprovet/hogskoleprovet-2018 finns redan som alias, eller som SEF URL. Den fanns inte i alias databasen

How do I fix it? Is 301 equal to canonical for SEO?

David 
Friday, 16 February 2018 13:52 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

Kunde inte spara. Fel: Alias allt-om-hogskoleprovet/hogskoleprovet-2018 finns redan som alias, eller som SEF URL. Den fanns inte i alias databasen
I assume this means something like "This alias already exists as an alias or a SEF URL?

As per the message, you cannot add allt-om-hogskoleprovet/hogskoleprovet-2018 as an alias if that URL already exists. You must delete it first.

Rgds
 
Friday, 16 February 2018 14:09 UTC
iusab
I deleted allt-om-hogskoleprovet/hogskoleprovet-2018 but when trying to add it as alias to hogskoleprovet-2018 i still got the same message. Is there a trash can or something i have missed?
Friday, 16 February 2018 14:35 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

No, if that URL does not exist and of course, this alias does not already exist, there should be no problem.

1 - What are your exact and full sh404SEF and Joomla versions?
2 - Can you update to the latest dev version (download it from the development versions download area), then double-check allt-om-hogskoleprovet/hogskoleprovet-2018 does not exist as a URL and an alias, then try again?

Rgds
 
Thursday, 22 February 2018 10:07 UTC
iusab
So issue was with me not seeing canonical links in aliases manager! Now I could change canonical to 301 and everything seems to work fine.

Another question.

I have a category that we could say has the name abcdefgh so adresses are lika abcdefgh/page

If i would like to change it to

abc/page

Could i use advanced alias with 301 like

Alias: abcdefgh/{*}

Target: abc/{*}

Or do i also need to change something with the category in joomla?
Thursday, 22 February 2018 10:17 UTC
wb_weeblr
Hi

Aliases are redirects. If you add this:

Alias: abcdefgh/{*}
Target: abc/{*}

Then if someones requests abcdef/test, sh404SEF will redirect their browser to abc/test.

This will not change the URLs displayed on your site at all. Actually and most likely, abc/test will generate a 404 as this URL does not exist.

First step is to change the category name.
Then you need to delete all URLs in sh404SEF SEF URL manager that have this category in the URL
Then sh404SEF will recreate new ones with the new name.
You also need to add the alias (as above) so that search engines and people who have bookmarked the old URL are redirected to the new ones.

Note that in the time needed to rebuild all the new URLs, people will be faced with 404s. Personally, I would not recommend such a change if the site is already well indexec by search engines.

Rgds
 
Friday, 09 March 2018 05:34 UTC
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