#43928 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)
WordPress treating URL number suffix strangely
Reported by: | galapogos01 | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 4.9.5 |
Component: | Canonical | Keywords: | |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Hi guys,
Weird one here that has been bought about by Google Search Console showing me Google is indexing hundreds of pages of my site. I raised a support ticket which resulted in the suggestion I raise it here.
WordPress seems to handle any number on the end of a valid URL as if it were a real page, and show it as a separate page, complete with canonical URL tag.
Example:
Real Page: http://www2.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/
Fake page - does not actually exist but returns a page: http://www2.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/2/
I have used these pages from the wordpress.org sample section as my example to prove its happening not just with my own install (I also tested with default theme & all plugins disabled).
The result of this craziness is that Google will index these many variants of the same page, causing duplicate content issues.
I would have expected WordPress to redirect to the actual page, which would have its own (correct) canonical.
Thoughts? Help!
Change History (3)
#2
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7 years ago
- Component changed from General to Canonical
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from new to closed
Hi @galapogos01, welcome to WordPress Trac!
Thanks for the report, we're already tracking this issue in #28081.
#3
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7 years ago
Thanks @SergeyBiryukov and thanks to @subrataemfluence for confirming I am not going mad.
@SergeyBiryukov, the linked ticket is 4 years old! What can we do to get some priority on this?
The indexing of the dummy pages causes real issues for SEO.
I have written a quick hack for the get_canonical_url filter to trim off the number but this is a hack only.
Thanks,
Jason
Welcome to Trac and thanks for the ticket!
I confirm that the issue is happening for me as well in several of my sites and even for a fresh install with bundled theme and no third party plugin installed.
Weird!