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        • SpaMedica
          SpaMedica last edited by

          Hi there,

          I'm trying to figure out the best way to solve a duplicate content problem that I have due to Page ID's that WordPress automatically assigns to pages. I know that in order for me to resolve this I have to use canonical urls but the problem for me is I can't figure out the URL structure.

          Moz is showing me thousands of duplicate content errors that are mostly related to Page IDs

          For example, this is how a page's url should look like on my site

          Moz is telling me there are 50 duplicate content errors for this page. The page ID for this page is 82 so the duplicate content errors appear as follows

          and so on. For 47 more pages. The problem repeats itself with other pages as well.

          My permalinks are set to "Post Name" so I know that's not an issue.

          What can I do to resolve this? How can I use canonical URLs to solve this problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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          • BlueprintMarketing
            BlueprintMarketing last edited by

            this might do it as well

            A flexible pattern URL mapping is a way of redirecting all URLs that match a particular pattern, to equivalent destination URLs, using a single mapping. It does this by allowing you to parse out and name portions of the requested URL to substitute into the destination URL. These types of URL mappings are useful when you are changing the structure or format of your URLs, but want to make sure you can redirect requests for pages under their old URL structure to their new URLs.

            An example of a flexible pattern URL is the following:

            /myblog/:post-year/:post-month/*rest-of-url?id=:post-id
            

            Each portion of the URL above that starts with a colon (:) creates a named component that is matched until the next delimiter character (./=&?), and any portion that starts with an asterisk (*) creates a named component that is matched until the end of the URL (up to the query string).

            The named components can then be used in the URL mapping's destination, with each name included inside of curly braces. For example, the named components defined in the flexible pattern URL above could be used to create the following destination:

            /newblog/{post-year}/{post-month}/post-{post-id}/{rest-of-url}
            

            To demonstrate how this flexible pattern URL mapping would work, let's consider the following example requested URL and where it would be redirected. The named components in the requested and destination URLs are highlighted.

            Requested URL: http://www.mydomain.com/myblog/2013/12/marketing/inbound-marketing-rocks?id=98765

            Redirected to: http://www.mydomain.com/newblog/2013/12/post-98765/marketing/inbound-marketing-rocks

            With this pattern-based URL mapping we were able to retain all of the important, identifying parts of the original URL and insert them into the new URL structure. In addition, with this particular mapping, we were able to:

            • capture the variable-length {rest-of-url} component (i.e. marketing/inbound-marketing-rocks) to be used in the destination url, by using an asterisk (*) at the beginning of that component's definition
            • move the {post-id} component from the query string in the original URL into the middle of the URL in the destination
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            • BlueprintMarketing
              BlueprintMarketing last edited by

              you may want to remove the flash file from the website. It is not compatible with iPhones and flash is really something I would  stay away from on websites.

              This is flash

              http://www.spamedica.com/wp-content/themes/spamedia/flash/spamedica_flash.swf

              See why that's not good

              http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/46bca267a16b8726a26c7438e76317ef51b877be

              Try

              http://www.browserstack.com/responsive

              Here's an example of the exact same thing using the gif

              http://cl.ly/image/2t2d470b3A2F/Screen Recording 2014-09-23 at 12.58 PM.gif

              http://www.browserstack.com/start#os=Windows&os_version=7&browser=Firefox&browser_version=25.0&zoom_to_fit=true&url=www.spamedica.com&resolution=1280x1024&speed=2

              iPhone

              http://www.browserstack.com/start#os=ios&os_version=6.0&device=iPhone+5&zoom_to_fit=true&url=www.spamedica.com&speed=2

              The http://www.siteground.com/  your host is  great for shared hosting

              your IP

              181.224.137.194 - 126 other sites hosted on this server

              I honestly would give them a call and have them correct your  htaccess file

              However if you want something that's going to be faster and focused 100% on WordPress use manage WordPress hosting provider. Like GetFlywheel you get your own VPS only one site per an IP no shared resources and this type of stuff is never a problem for them to fix.

              You can migrate 100% free in addition.

              Overall I would say that your site needs some TLC

              http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/exa05N/http://www.spamedica.com/

              you have over 100 requests and your server does a good job of catching after it's been loaded but not that much prior to so the 1st visit will be slow.

              Most important part is it needs to be responsive and work properly on mobile devices.

              that includes using CSS 3 and HTML 5 to substitute for flash so render properly on all devices. In addition to allowing people to browse it on all devices.

              http://www.spamedica.com/

              Tested from New York City, New York, USA on September 23 at 14:00:29

              <dl class="first">

              <dt>Page size</dt>

              <dd>1.9MB</dd>

              </dl>

              <dl>

              <dt>Load time</dt>

              <dd>2.31s</dd>

              </dl>

              <dl>

              <dt>Requests</dt>

              <dd>112</dd>

              </dl>

              <dl class="last">

              <dt>Perf. grade</dt>

              <dd>69/100</dd>

              </dl>

              Sincerely,

              Thomas

              ECr56iE.png

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              • BlueprintMarketing
                BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                You can check it with

                https://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php

                https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

                If you’re on Apache and you decide to do the redirect, having been on a/yyyy/mm/dd/%postname%/ structure before, you might benefit from this simple redirect which you could throw into your .htaccess file:

                | 1 | RedirectMatch 301 /\d{4}/\d{2}/\d{2}/(.*) http://example.com/$1 |

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                • BlueprintMarketing
                  BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                  PS try to save your link structure to the way you want it and make sure you click the save button.

                  if it does not work there a problem that would  require access to WordPress to fix

                  http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/39665/custom-htaccess-rewrite-rule-for-page

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                  • BlueprintMarketing
                    BlueprintMarketing last edited by

                    Rewrite the URLs your hosting company for a plug-in like

                    https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo-premium/

                    Yoast makes it better be best redirect plug-in for WordPress I know of.

                    You can use The redirection plug-in

                    https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

                    Hosting

                    http://getflywheel.com/help/do-you-support-htaccess-files/

                    You will want to clean up what WordPress did not.

                    Via 301 redirects it is most likely an error in your HTaccess file

                    Your WordPress install is not up to date as well you may want to ensure that is updated to 4.0.

                    Have http://getflywheel.com/tour/ do it

                    This is something I would recommend a company like Getflywheel.com at $15 a month you get manage WordPress your own all SSD VPS and all the issues with WordPress to take care of by them. http://getflywheel.com is a bargain.

                    Hope that helps,

                    Thomas

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