| Google Webmaster Tools HTML Suggestions Duplicate Meta Titles, Descrips on Non-Existent Pages |
redwaterdub |
7/20/12 11:34 PM |
I have an issue with an old wp plugin that is still creating problems... Many months ago i used a mobile plugin called wpmp (wordpress mobile plugin). I noticed that in my Google webmaster tools.I was getting duplicate pages created by the plugin. S |
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webado |
7/21/12 12:58 AM |
This doesn't make sense. If you disabled and then uninstalled that plugin it should not continue to "live". If urls don't exist they have to respond with 404. Do those respond that way? |
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redwaterdub |
7/21/12 5:27 AM |
No the urls do not 404 but they are showing up in GWT as pages with duplicate description and title tags. All of these pages have ?wpmp string after the normal page url so for example: http://homeremedieslog.com/iron/ is the normal page. http://ho |
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webado |
7/21/12 5:57 AM |
Rule #1: If it doesn't respond with 404 then it exists. For that matter you can use any query string you can concoct and it will respond with 200. Try it with something silly like ?bingobang=stuff This is where you have to take action and manage unw |
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redwaterdub |
7/21/12 7:01 AM |
Thanks very much.. this sounds exactly what i need to do... the unwanted strings found are as follows: ?wpmp_switcher=mobile ?wpmp_switcher=desktop ?wpmp_tp=0 ?wpmp_tp=1 ?wpmp_tp=2 ?wpmp_switcher=mobile&wpmp_tp=0 ?wpmp_switcher=mobile&wpmp_tp=1 ?wp |
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webado |
7/21/12 7:28 AM |
You can take care of them individually if you don't want to figure out a pattern match expression: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{query_string} ^wpmp_switcher=mobile [OR] RewriteCond %{query_string} ^wpmp_switcher=desktop [OR] RewriteCond %{query_st |
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redwaterdub |
7/21/12 3:14 PM |
Thanks very much you are very kind. hope this works! |
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webado |
7/21/12 3:54 PM |
Test and test again. Use http://web-sniffer.net for any url to see what's going on. |
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redwaterdub |
7/21/12 3:55 PM |
One more question... After I have added this to the .htaccess file, shall i request url removals for these pages or just leave it? Thanks |
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webado |
7/21/12 7:17 PM |
No, absolutely not! Don't request any removals. The urls need to be available for Googlebot to try to crawl and discover the redirections. |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 3:18 PM |
I have just checked.. a week later and the problem still exists... The wpmp pages are still showing in my GWT area HTML improvements..as pages with duplicate title and description tags? |
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webado |
7/28/12 3:35 PM |
Your are blocking them in your robots.txt file! The redirections will never be found that way. In fact you entire robots.txt file needs fixing. You have this currently: User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Disallow: /wp-includes/ Disallow: /*.pdf/ D |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 4:28 PM |
Okay thank you.. I have changed the robots.txt to what you said and also added the code you said in .htaccess file. However the reason I put the disallow lines in robots.txt in the first place was because google told me I needed to if I was to make |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 4:42 PM |
Oh, and I also changed the all in one settings like you said and made sure sitemap did not include those pages also like you said. So I have done everything you said so far... So now when I check my google webmaster tools error pages and 404 pages |
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webado |
7/28/12 4:44 PM |
Correct - you don't need, nor should you request url removal for urls which you are 301 redirecting. |
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webado |
7/28/12 4:46 PM |
It deosn't matter that you got /tags/ removed - in fact you want to get rid of them fast and that the way. Keeping them from now on noindexed with a robots noindex meta tag is going to ensure they don't get back int the index. But from Webmaster Tool |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 4:46 PM |
You may have gathered I had two issues going on with GWT... 1/ html improvements showing the wpmp pages which didnt exist, and 2/ hundreds of 404 pages in the crawl errors section.. So you think i have covered everything now from your help..? |
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webado |
7/28/12 4:54 PM |
Are the urls that respond with 404 urls that you've ever had ? Have you changed url structure? Are any of them indexed? Or are those urls vestiges of tags and categories that have been removed from Wordpress?You can request removal of the /tag/ and / |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 5:08 PM |
just so I understand this... the all in one settings makes no index meta tags which is different from the robots.txt file right? the 404 errors I was getting and still am.. are mainly category, tag and other pages that I deleted but were still inde |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 5:49 PM |
I am still a little uncertain about the .htaccess.txt code.. you say this is a 301 direct... but the pages it is redirecting are the wpmp pages that do not even exist. Why is it that you say not to have them removed from the index? I understand that |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 6:35 PM |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 6:52 PM |
One last concern... now that the new .htaccess is current and all the changes I have made to all in one settings and robots.txt, why is it it that these wpmp pages are still opening up and not redirecting?.. does it take some time to take effect? fo |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 7:56 PM |
I am sure something is not right still.. i have just been talking to my host and they say that the pages with the wpmp strings are returning 404. So that means that the robots.txt I USED to have before u told me to change it had taken effect. However |
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webado |
7/28/12 9:00 PM |
I didn't give up. But I took a long nap. The robots.txt file is not something that affects anything as concerns server responses. It just tells robots what to crawl or not. The robots "noindex" meta tag tells robots not to index the url that has tha |
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redwaterdub |
7/28/12 9:05 PM |
Hi..thanks again for helping(: Here is what my .htaccess looks like now: ASCII text ##compress text, html, javascript, css, xml: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xm |
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