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1. pixelhub
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Hi i have a question about the duplicate content / link structure within wordpress

   Hi i have the link structure

   %category%/%post%.html

   If i create a category (bits) a sub category (bobs) and add a post to that sub category (widgets.html) the url looks like this

   Example.com/bits/bobs/widgets.html

   Which is what you would expect. However if you type in any of the following in to the address bar you are served with the content of Example.com/bits/bobs/widgets.html even though the url is different.

   Example.com /bobs/widgets.html
   Example.com / bits/ widgets.html

   Each one have the server response code 200 which is not what you would expect as only one truly exists the other 2 should be 404s.
   Why does wordpress do this an how can i prevent it.

   I have added the canonical link/tag to the top of every page so search engines know what the url should be, but its not the best solution.

   Cheers

2. samboll
   moderator
   Posted 1 month ago #

   %category%/%post%.html
   not correct

   /%category%/%postname%.html
   correct

   %category%
   Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure

3. pixelhub
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Thanks for the reply but it was just a typo in my question (I can't edit the post). I actually have the correct link structure.

   /%category%/%post%.html

4. pixelhub
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   lol..

   I made a typo correcting the typo.

   I actually have the correct link structure

   /%category%/%postname%.html

   not what i wrote in the question above. The quetion should read

   Hi i have a question about the duplicate content / link structure within wordpress

   Hi i have the link structure

   /%category%/%postname%.html

   If i create a category (bits) a sub category (bobs) and add a post to that sub category (widgets.html) the url looks like this

   Example.com/bits/bobs/widgets.html

   Which is what you would expect. However if you type in any of the following in to the address bar you are served with the content of Example.com/bits/bobs/widgets.html even though the url is different.

   Example.com/bobs/widgets.html
   Example.com/bits/widgets.html

   Each one have the server response code 200 which is not what you would expect as only one truly exists the other 2 should be 404s.

   Why does wordpress do this an how can i prevent it.

   I have added the canonical link/tag to the top of every page so search engines know what the url should be, but its not the best solution.

   Cheers

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