zomex Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Hello, Had this report from Google: Duplicate without user-selected canonical These pages aren't indexed or served on Google See attached for the URLS in question. But these URLS are not valied. I cannot see anywhere on my site that is linking to these URLs including the /page/ in the URL. Does anyone have any ideas or have seen this before? Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zomex Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 Update, I can see this URL is used for announcement pages. My site goes upto page 62, unsure where Google is finding the above numbered URLS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remitur Posted March 1 Share Posted March 1 Check your sitemap: a sitemap generator may go wild and create crazy content... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zomex Posted March 1 Author Share Posted March 1 9 minutes ago, Remitur said: Check your sitemap: a sitemap generator may go wild and create crazy content... That is a good call, sadly I already checked before my post. The sitemap contains valid Announcement URLs, not any Google are finding: https://www.zomex.com/sitemap.xml 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remitur Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 Are you experiencing the same issue on Bing too, or only on Google? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadWebHosting Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 On 2/28/2024 at 9:29 AM, zomex said: Update, I can see this URL is used for announcement pages. My site goes upto page 62, unsure where Google is finding the above numbered URLS. Honestly, why not just exclude all these /announcements/page/# pages in robots.txt or similar? I can't see the value of having these types of archives indexed. The content of a page like /announcements/page/2 would continuously be changed by successive announcement posts, so I would think it would be hard for it to really have many unique search terms that would apply consistently. If I'm wrong, I would love to know about it. I won't profess to be an expert in this particular subject. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zomex Posted March 12 Author Share Posted March 12 On 3/2/2024 at 6:45 AM, Remitur said: Are you experiencing the same issue on Bing too, or only on Google? I don't really check Bing so unsure. On 3/7/2024 at 4:50 PM, radwebhosting said: Honestly, why not just exclude all these /announcements/page/# pages in robots.txt or similar? I can't see the value of having these types of archives indexed. The content of a page like /announcements/page/2 would continuously be changed by successive announcement posts, so I would think it would be hard for it to really have many unique search terms that would apply consistently. If I'm wrong, I would love to know about it. I won't profess to be an expert in this particular subject. Thanks for that. I agree and have used the following in robots.txt: User-Agent: * Disallow: /clients/announcements/page/* I hope this will resolve the issue. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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