Adding digets to the end of slug

  • Resolved lilmarsh

    (@lilmarsh)


    12 months ago

    This has been bothering me for months now and Google is throwing a fit about it and I cant figure it out. For just about all my post wordpress is adding a number on the end for example

    https://healthycarpetsnow.com/choosing-the-best-carpet-for-your-home
    https://healthycarpetsnow.com/choosing-the-best-carpet-for-your-home/1
    https://healthycarpetsnow.com/choosing-the-best-carpet-for-your-home/2
    https://healthycarpetsnow.com/choosing-the-best-carpet-for-your-home/3
    https://healthycarpetsnow.com/choosing-the-best-carpet-for-your-home/4
    https://healthycarpetsnow.com/choosing-the-best-carpet-for-your-home/5

    Believe it or not Google is actually indexing these pages but it has to be hurting me in the rankings. The thing that really boggled me is, none of urls with a # at the end is NOT in my pages section on my wordpress dashboard. I belive it has somthing to do with the tile of the image(s) on the actual page. For key word reasons I name the image “Choosing the best carpet for your home” But why in the world would WordPress think thats another page and create a entire different fake duplicated page? Please help me, Im looking for a quick fix and explication if possible. If I exclude image from sitemap will this fix the issue maybe?

    • This topic was modified 12 months ago by lilmarsh.
    • This topic was modified 12 months ago by lilmarsh.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Google can’t be indexing those.

    If you drop the redirected URLs into an HTTP header checker, like https://httpheader.io you’ll see that the result is “HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”.

    Google does not index URLs that are permanently redirected with a 301 status code. Instead, it indexes the URL they are redirected to.

    WordPress is just doing its best to return what it thinks you want from an invalid URL. In this case, it’s doing an excellent job. Google will only index the canonical URL.

    Thread Starter lilmarsh

    (@lilmarsh)

    It appears to be index to me. What is causing this? This is 100% not normal. Google is even telling me all these pages Alternate page with proper canonical tag.

    Thread Starter lilmarsh

    (@lilmarsh)

    when I try uploading image url its says your reply canont be empty. How do I show image? If you put this https://healthycarpetsnow.com/choosing-the-best-carpet-for-your-home/3/ in google its 100% for sure indext. Please see this image. https://sendeyo.com/en/8e53f86dc1

    • This reply was modified 12 months ago by lilmarsh.
    • This reply was modified 12 months ago by lilmarsh.
    Ashutosh Sharma

    (@ashutosharma97)

    WP isn’t causing this issue. You have added Elementor’s Post Widget, and enabled pagination with it:

    Meaning you have all those links /<page-number> links on the page, and Google is simply crawling those and respecting your indexing choice:

    You need to disable pagination or use “AJAX Load More” option for it.

    Thread Starter lilmarsh

    (@lilmarsh)

    Yes, now that is a explanation. So if I use AJAX to load more, that should fix this? Do you think this even effects rankings? If I use AJAX Load More would that be a validation fix to Google?

    Ashutosh Sharma

    (@ashutosharma97)

    So if I use AJAX to load more, that should fix this?

    Yes, Elementor won’t add pagination links, therefore Google will no longer find these links on your pages.

    Do you think this even effects rankings?

    I am not an expert in this matter. I can only say that our internal links will be reduced, as you won’t be getting links from all those paginated pages.

    If I use AJAX Load More would that be a validation fix to Google?

    Yes, as those links will no longer be valid, and WP will return 404.

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