http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: URLs submitted in sitemap with rewritten URLs have started to be indexed wrongly en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:58:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253991#post-1019152 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:58:56 +0000 Otilia @ Ad Ops Online 1019152@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I would like to bring to attention an issue I have observed over the past several days (7-10 days, approx.). I run a rather large blog using WP 2.7.1 and I chose a "day and name" permalink structure, something along the lines of <a href="http://www.mysite.com/2009/03/18/sample-post/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mysite.com/2009/03/18/sample-post/</a></p> <p>I use Google sitemaps and the XML Sitemaps plugin to help indexing since I have over 15,000 pages in my site and everything worked well until recently, when I noticed Google decided to index the URLs using the standard post ID parameter and not what was submitted.</p> <p>To give an example:</p> <p>This URL was indexed - <a href="http://www.adoperationsonline.com/?p=2528" rel="nofollow">www.adoperationsonline.com/?p=2528</a> - however, what was submitted through the sitemap was <a href="http://www.adoperationsonline.com/2009/01/26/search-engine-strategies-ses-london-conference-expo/" rel="nofollow">http://www.adoperationsonline.com/2009/01/26/search-engine-strategies-ses-london-conference-expo/</a> .</p> <p>I've checked and doublechecked: the URLs in my sitemap are carrying the correct day and title structure, yet they end up indexed in their raw form using the post ID parameter.</p> <p>Has anybody faced something similar, or does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this issue? Indexing using the post ID is terrible and very reader-unfriendly. Plus, ever since this happened, my indexed pages have taken a serious hit, from 11,300 to under 9,000 currently and the trend is downwards. I've changed absolutely nothing in the site settings, so why the sudden indexing going all wrong? I repeat, pages used to be correctly indexed with their friendly URLs until not long ago, when they all became post ID-based.</p> <p>Is this something you have bumped into and can give some feedback?</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Otilia </p>