By Meagan Hooper on Friday, 19 April 2019
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Hello,

We're experiencing a bug where if a Joomla article ID and User ID match, then a custom URL is created with that ID and the user name.

Example: https://www.bsmartguide.com/1537-taylor-hurewitz.html

(1537 is an article ID and a user ID)

User URL should be: https://www.bsmartguide.com/profile/1537-taylor-hurewitz.html. (With the world "Profile" in it)

Article URL should be: https://www.bsmartguide.com/wellness/1537-how-to-make-more-time-for-you-during-your-day.html (With category and title).

The problem, is that this article was not written by this user. And, the article page shouldn't be able to display at all unless using the properly mapped URL. (Otherwise there's no formatting.)

We've discovered this is the case for ALL User IDs that match Article IDs for public articles.

How can we remove all URLs with matching article/user ID and user name? (These pages are showing up in Google search results for the user).
Hi Meagan,

Actually google will only index the link if the link is display in your site, As I try to inspect link that generated by Easysocial seems like it was display correctly https://www.screencast.com/t/3Oky9b5LXNI https://www.screencast.com/t/tHiChJ26YOoc
May I know if you know any page that display the user link format as you mentioned above?
So that we can troubleshoot the issue further?

Thanks for your cooperation and understanding Meagan.
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Friday, 19 April 2019 11:24
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Hi Fadhli,

My question is why is this URL displaying: https://www.bsmartguide.com/1537-taylor-hurewitz.html ?

(Note, it's displaying a Joomla article that has the same ID as the user ID.)
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Friday, 19 April 2019 20:17
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Here's some additional info to help you research. In the first screenshot you can see that a google search for the person Taylor Hurewitz returns a link to our site, BUT that link is not formatted correctly. It is missing the 'profile' portion of the url. If you click on that link it will bring you to an article on our site that has the same id as taylor hurewitz's user id (1537). And the article is not even displaying within the proper joomla template. There is no header, menu etc. See the second screenshot. In the third screenshot you can see the article with id 1537 the way that it should be displayed.
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Saturday, 20 April 2019 00:18
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Hey there,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here.

What I can think of is you did set your site "Easysocial - User Dashboard" menu item as your default homepage previously, so user profile page URL will show this format https://www.bsmartguide.com/1537-username . At the same time, Google did indexed this page URL on their server as well.

And this page already cached by Google on 23 Mar 2019 14:16:18 GMT (screenshot : http://take.ms/0zLnr) last time.

I think this is what you can do now :

1. Re-submit sitemap to Google Search console, you can take a look this article guideline https://www.shoutmeloud.com/how-submit-your-blog-sitemap-google-webmaster-tool.html , this is newest update from someone.

In this way, you can tell Google to re-index your site all the page and those link already expired, Google will remove it from their server, so you will not see this kind of result on Google search engine. (screenshot : http://take.ms/t7nOX1)

2. You can find one of the 3rd party sitemap extension to assist you https://extensions.joomla.org/category/structure-a-navigation/site-map/ , and you need to make sure do not have these page URL format for your site user profile (https://www.bsmartguide.com/1537-username) before you submit the sitemap.

3. Update us if those sitemap still showing those page URL format.
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Sunday, 21 April 2019 11:55
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Thank you, Arlex.
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Monday, 22 April 2019 22:18
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You're most welcome.
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Tuesday, 23 April 2019 10:11
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