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Huge Duplicate URLs SEO problem impacting our sites
14 February 2013 at 11:46pm
Hi Everyone
We recently launched www.safari.co.uk on the SS3 framework, thinking this would be an improvement, however there are HUGE SEO PROBLEMS!
Duplicate URLs
framework/main.php?url=kenya
sapphire/main.php?url=kenya
/kenya
kenya/Are all the same! Now we have excluded the top 2 with a robots.text, but the / is a problem. SS3 rewrites links to have a / at the end, thats fine, but why doesnt it rewrite non-slashes to slashes? This is causing instant drop in SERPs, overnight from launching the site. Duplication radar is going mental!
We have tried lots of htaccess rules, with no sucess...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.safarilocal.co.uk/$1/ [R=301]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^blog/(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* framework/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]There doesnt seem to be something that will play nice with forms, admin and pages that rewrites everything to have a / at the end. We need to consider dataobjects as pages, form posts, etc in the htaccess.
Please help!
Thanks
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Re: Huge Duplicate URLs SEO problem impacting our sites
16 February 2013 at 4:28pm
Not sure if this is fixed in 3.1 (I recall a discussion about it) but I have a patch for 2.4 which I used on production sites - http://open.silverstripe.org/ticket/6700
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Re: Huge Duplicate URLs SEO problem impacting our sites
16 February 2013 at 6:44pm
Also, have a look at putting in a rel=canonical link tag. Something like <link rel="canonical" href="$AbsoluteLink" /> should work for any Page.
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