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Crawling Issue with Fancy URL.. - sweetcell - 2014-09-06
I've built a site in Get Simple and I'm noticing an indexing issue with the URLs. It's hard to explain but i'll do my best.
domain.com/school-event-planning/birthday-party-ideas is indexed in google however each of these pages is a direct page of it's own. domain.com/school-event-planning and domain.com/birthday-party-ideas are the correct url's but when I ran an xml sitemap I saw it indexed all the pages at domain.com/page-name but then indexed all the pages again under domain.com/page-name/page-name and then repeated this for every single page.
The working example would be you have home, about us, services, contact us
so it indexes home, about us, services, contact us
and then indexes
about us/about us
about us/services
about us/contact us
THEN it indexes
services/about us
services/services
services/contact us
THEN it indexes
contact us/about us
contact us/services
contact us/contact us
Except now picture this with 48 pages all doing this. Nothing tells anything crawling the site that a non page actually doesn't exist every URL you create will show a page, there is no 404 not found error ever.. How can this be stopped as it's affected indexing and rankings for SEO.
RE: Crawling Issue with Fancy URL.. - shawn_a - 2014-09-06
What is your permalink structure ?
And what are you using for menu system ?
RE: Crawling Issue with Fancy URL.. - sweetcell - 2014-09-06
The menu system is CSS drop down. and the permalinks I've activated the Fancy URL's in the admin settings.
RE: Crawling Issue with Fancy URL.. - shawn_a - 2014-09-06
Maybe your menu urls are wrong since its custom it sounds.
Whats the site map look like, you say it has dups ?