Plugin creating URLs for each heading

  • Resolved katyzou

    (@katyzou)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    Hello!

    I’ve installed this plugin and I’m using it in my posts. Each post has 7-10 headings. Now the problem is that I see in Google Search Console and Google Analytics that apparently the plugin created new URLs for each heading!

    For example:
    mydomain.com/mypostname
    mydomain.com/mypostname/#1firstheading
    mydomain.com/mypostname/#2secondheading
    mydomain.com/mypostname/#3thirdheading

    Does anyone know if there’s any advantage to this for SEO? I honestly don’t see it. How can I disable this?

    Thanks in advance 🙂

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  • Steven

    (@shazahm1hotmailcom)

    4 years, 2 months ago

    These are in-page links (anchors) that are a web standard and how all TOC plugins work. The TOC is generated, and add a link to each heading in the post that the TOC will link.

    If you do not wish to have in-page links (anchors) generated, the only option is to deactivate the ezTOC plugin.

    As for the SEO benefit, in-page links, a web search engine may decide to list those as part of the search results on popular pages on your site.

    Thread Starter katyzou

    (@katyzou)

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Thank you very much for your explanation Steven. That makes sense! I was afraid it would create too many additional links that would mess up with my SEO, because my site’s new pages aren’t getting indexed anymore since a few months I’m trying to find out why.

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