Content issue - redirecting articles to a prefered page.
By T.W. van Urk on Tuesday, 29 December 2015
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Hi there,

At the homepage of my (Dutch) website http://www.kruwt.nl I use the Frontpage menu-item to show the most recent blog articles (Image-1). In addition, I have an 'Archive Blog' page which I want to use as the central point of reading and seaching blog articles etc. (image-2) I use there a second instance of the Frontpage menu item.

The problem is, when selecting an article or categorie from my 'Archive Blog' page, it is displayed at the frontpage instead of my 'archive page'. See image 3, 4, 5. At Image 3 I have indicated the wrong redirection.

I have tried to replace the frontpage menu-item with the 'single-post' item. In that case, the items of the 'blog-archive' page are redirected correctly. However, I want to show more articles at my frontpage.
Another solution I tried is to replace the frontpage menu-item by the 'Showcase module' or the 'Latest Post' module. That gives also a good redirection, however the poor possibilities of styling the lay-out of these modules don't meet my wishes of frontpage styling.

So, I am tending to use two copies of the Frontpage menu item, but how can I make the item of the "Blog Archive' page the preferred one?

Thank you for your answer,
Kind regards, T.W. van Urk
Hey,

Thanks for getting back to me on this and I apologize for the delay of my reply, was a little occupied earlier today. Hm, it's actually fine to have a /blog/ and I think it makes more sense if you think of it in Google's point of view The URL would make more sense
Mark
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Wednesday, 30 December 2015 16:45
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Hey there,

Hm, what you are trying to achieve here is extremely dangerous as it would result in duplicate urls (You will be penalized by Google heavily). Imagine if you have an article with the title of "hello" that appears on both menu's. It will result on,

http://site.com/menu1/hello
http://site.com/menu2/hello

In Google's dictionary, you are trying to perform some blackhat SEO techniques and it would result in duplicate urls when you use Google Webmaster. This is actually why we removed the ability to generate urls based on the current menu item they are on in EasyBlog 5.

Your best bet is to create 2 menu item's which links to the "single category layout". This is the only way EasyBlog can intelligently know which menu alias (Itemid) it should use for linking the blog post
Mark
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Tuesday, 29 December 2015 22:41
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Hi Mark,

Thanks for your eminent advise. It works perfect for me !!!

For the homepage I use use the menu-entry 'Single Category' and for my archive page the 'Frontpage item'. I have created a new Category 'HomePage' which marks the blogs to show at the homepage.
All references and showings of the articles are correct working now .

A minor drawback is that I have manual to add and (after a while) remove the HomePage category from my articles. But I can handle that. No problem!

A last question about your SEO remarks. I have noticed NOT to mark HomePage as Primary category. In that case, the url is changing when after a while I remove this category. e.g. from 'http://www.kruwt.nl/test-post' to 'http://www.kruwt.nl/blog/test-post'.

But when I always create the Homepage category as secondary, the URL is default 'http://www.kruwt.nl/blog/test-post' and is not changing, and, I guess, this has no Google/SEO consequence!?

Is my last assumption correct?

Thanks for your wonderful blogging tool. From now, I have to fill the content of my site with the most beautiful part of it, the composer !

Kind regards,

T.W. van Urk
T.W. van Urk
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Wednesday, 30 December 2015 02:51
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