SEO Question
By Chris Bond on Tuesday, 20 May 2014
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I am going through the meta tag under 'SEO' from the main screen. I have found since switching to Easyblog that pages are being indexed and leading to a general page which i have not created myself. Upon searching in google i find incomplete urls for categories.

My current hypothesis is that if i disallow indexing of categories and specific types of views ie 'archives', 'bloggers' etc, which i dont not want to feature as my main indexed pages that i should help to narrow the scope for the bots to crawl, thereby allowing better direction on index.

My question is, will this cause a problem for the posts which are assigned to that category? Keeping in mind i have menu items thru joomla which lead to easyblog category layouts, which i would like to be my indexed pages.

I am unsure as to how easyblog does most of its index and what the proper practice is, but it seems like there are too many pages on my site because of the number of pages easyblog generates automatically.

To be clear this is NOT a complaint, simply looking to optimize for my needs.

Thank you for making the time to review my issue.

Chris
Hello Chris,

Hm, I think first you need to identify which pages are generating these "invalid", "duplicate" links. If you could identify this, it would be pretty easy to fix this. The reason is because, category and tag pages are rich in content and I do find that Google does give priority to these pages for some reasons.
Mark
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014 04:19
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Thank you for the reply, Mark.

When I was configuring the global routing for URLs in Easyblog I went through a trial and error process which led to google indexing pages with various URL strings that were undesired. So that is one reason why this has happened.

I deactivated the 'categories' as well as 'tags' 'archive' and have created the indexing through the menu items we created for https://www.sos-therapy.com. Hopefully this does the trick. The issue is it is in googles cache and I cannot remove it as webmaster tools will not allow it. Is there anyway you are aware to see duplicate links?
Chris Bond
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014 02:57
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Hello Chris,

Hm, to be honest, we are also still stuck with some of these errors on Google webmasters for our old website (5 years ago) but I don't think it has done any damage to us. I have never been able to get a proper answer about this from them either
Mark
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014 03:30
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Ok thank you Mark. SEO is tricky, I will keep trying different things out and if i find something that shows improvement in results I will share in the forum.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Chris Bond
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Friday, 23 May 2014 02:02
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You are most welcome Chris I think SEO is really not difficult at all but Google just had to make life a little bit more tougher than usual
Mark
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Friday, 23 May 2014 11:24
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