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Yesterday I checked one of my sites in the Google webmaster tools. It showed me warnings for many pages of the site beyond the home page. It looked like Google found pages two times: once with a normal URL (ending with a slash) and another without ending slash. It treated pages as separate and it thinks that I have double content on the site. Pretty bad as it lowers page rank.
Interestingly all links on the site end with slash. There are no links without ending slash at all. However if such link is requested, RealURL will recognize it and return proper page (duplicate for Google). This is caused by the use of "appendMissingSlash" RealURL configuration option. So if someone links to the page but omits slash in the end, he lowers your page rank. Not truly your (or my fault) but it happens. I have to repeat: this is not a fault of you, me or RealURL. It is created by a wrong linking from external sites.
I thought about a cure and implemented a new option in RealURL. Now "appendMissingSlash" accepts also "redirect" keyword. It means that RealURL will redirect to the proper address (with ending slash). It is possible also to specify the code for redirection ("redirect[301]") but RealURL uses 301 by default.
This version is not yet in TER. I am testing it on one site along with a bugfix #9412 for absRefPrefix. I just thought I announce it a bit earlier. For now you can check your sites in Google webmaster tools.
P.S. No, I cannot send you T3X with this version. But you can always checkout latest development version from TYPO3 SVN if you wish. But I am not responsible for the risk you take by doing it.
would the redirect be possible for this case?
www.domain.com/mysite - redir -> www.domain.com/mysite.html
and
www.domain.com/mysite/ - redir -> www.domain.com/mysite.html
This config also causes dup. content.
Thanks.
Regards, Thomas
would the redirect be possible for this case?
www.domain.com/mysite - redir -> www.domain.com/mysite.html
and
www.domain.com/mysite/ - redir -> www.domain.com/mysite.html
This config also causes dup. content.
Thanks.
Regards, Thomas
/pagename.html
/pagename/
/pagename
all of the above deliver the same content.
I will test this tomorrow and open a bug if not yet done.
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9582
I'm just wondering: Why should one not want to have the (obviously) duplicate URLs being redirected?
In other words: Please remove the new option again and make it the default behaviour if "appendMissingSlash" is set.
- michael
I think the latter is the case. Therefore nothing gets broken. You still solve the same problem, but with a different (a better) approach.
- michael
If you want to get the site with and without a slash, just forward one of them with a 301-redirect. With this, google won't prosecute you, cause you send the right header information.
kind regards,
andy
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['EXTCONF']['realurl']['www.domain.tld']['redirects'] = array('mypage.htm'=>'/de/todo/');
www.domain.tld/mypage.htm will become www.domain.tld/mypage.htm/
andy