dummy links -> SEO 404s

  • Resolved hughc

    (@hughc)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,
    I don’t have any sort of monthly archive pages set up; the plugin shows a matching URL in the href for each button bar. Although these links are not ‘clickable’ by users (as the JS intercepts the click and turns it into an AJAX call to retrieve the post list) these links are still search-visible, resulting in a lot of 404 errors when the site is indexed. Perhaps they could be optionally hidden?
    cheers,
    Hugh

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/expanding-archives/

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  • Plugin Author Ashley

    (@nosegraze)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Are you referring to the monthly archives? Like yoursite.com/2015/10 ?

    If so, I would highly suggest setting those up as proper redirects. I believe this can be done with Yoast. (Under Titles & Metas > Archives, select “Disable the date-based archives” to redirect them to the homepage.)

    Thread Starter hughc

    (@hughc)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Yeah, as they 404’ed I assumed they didn’t exist, but it turns out my permalink structure is different to the flat one the plugin is assuming; all the blog posts live under /news/ , so archives are in
    /news/2011/10 etc

    ie http://accsr.com.au/news/2011/04/

    This is a setup I inherited. For now, I’ve hardcoded the extra path element.

    Plugin Author Ashley

    (@nosegraze)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Can you paste me the exact permalink structure you have entered in Settings > Permalinks?

    I will be changing some pieces of that code in a new version but I can test it with your structure first to make sure it works as intended.

    Thread Starter hughc

    (@hughc)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Sorry I didn’t get back to you on this, the new version (1.0.3) works fine; thanks for the fix.

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