By Jerry Hayes on Friday, 16 December 2016
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my site is http://www.renegaderadio.net - i used to keep it in a subfolder such as /radio. since then we've moved things around and i've got it all in the root where it should be.

however - when i run an SEO on the site to start a massive project, i get
"http://renegaderadio.net/radio/index.php/social/easyblog?format=feed&type=rss"; as an invalid link showing up on almost every single page. so it's part of my template or process somewhere and i don't know where joomla is pulling it from to turn it off.

i go to my easy blog settings for RSS feeds and it says my feed is:
http://renegaderadio.net/index.php?option=com_easyblog&view=latest&format=feed&type=rss

and this is working fine.

where would joomla be pulling the /radio/ link from so i can turn it off? any idea?

thanks for the help as always!

jerry
Looks like this is not an issue with EasyBlog. I believe those icons that you added at the top is some module? Anyway, doing a search on the source seems to locate /radio/ in that particular section on all of your pages as you can see here, http://take.ms/rNpAE
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Saturday, 17 December 2016 15:14
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Hey Jerry,

May i know how do you run SEO on your site? Is it one of the SEO component you run from your backend?

Because I did check from your Easyblog frontpage, if you click on the RSS icon from the Easyblog toolbar, it seems work fine.

http://www.renegaderadio.net/index.php/social-articles

Perhaps you can try purge cache/index from your SEO component and try re-check again.
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Friday, 16 December 2016 10:07
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(2) different links. YES - the one on the site *now* works fine. the *problem* is i had easyblog setup when my was was:

http://www.renegaderadio.net/radio - and had RSS setup.

when i run a broken link detector, *every single page* has this link on it:

http://renegaderadio.net/radio/index.php/social/easyblog?format=feed&;type=rss

try that one - it won't work. see how it still says "radio"? pointing to an old site? it's the *old* link still there - somewhere. i need to know where this is coming from to turn it off so my SEO won't be tanking like it is now.

thanks again!

jerry
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Friday, 16 December 2016 18:13
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Hi Jerry,

Thanks for the clarification. May i know this 'broken link' detector, is this a online tool such as google web master tool? If yes, most likely your old links are still cached in search engine provider such as google search engine.

Maybe what you can do is to write a custom url rewrite so that any links to your site that has the /radio/ will be redirect to non /radio/ version. One way of achieving this is create rewrite rules using htaccess.

Hope this help and have a nice day!
Sam
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Friday, 16 December 2016 18:25
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semrush for one. we did a full audit using this tool and i've been cleaning up a ton of broken links page by page but there are some that appear *every* page and this is the last one i can't find where it's coming from.

last night i ran https://www.marcobeierer.com/tools/link-checker to do spot checks along the way and this still shows up. feel free to run it on my site and you'll see it.

it can't be a cache because we've *NOT* been in /radio for a year. when we moved to our new provider a year ago we also moved out of /radio and put it simply in the root. there has to be a file out there somewhere joomla pulls in for their templates where this is stored and i just need to know where or which one. i *do not* wish to relink something th at appears on every single page to a valid link. i need to find where this is coming from and get rid of it.

jerry
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Friday, 16 December 2016 18:28
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also - i believe i opened up a support ticket to get your help in moving our site from /radio to the root. this is just a holdover from that setup and i need to find it and nuke it. it also can't be a cache because it shows up on pages created long after we moved out of /radio so something is adding this to every page.

where is the valid URL kept/stored in the system, not dashboard. it's fine in the admin panel of joomla / easy blog.
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Friday, 16 December 2016 18:39
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wow - you are 100% right and i forgot that's how i set that up. 100% me and thank you for pointing that out.

jerry
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Saturday, 17 December 2016 20:04
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You are most welcome, glad that your issues are resolved now
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Saturday, 17 December 2016 22:35
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