Help! Multiple URLs causing Google indexing issues…

  • I’m having some problems with the naming of my URLs that I think is causing Google to really get confused with my site. I have hundreds of URLs in the supplemental index!

    My blog was originally on Blogger but then I moved it to my own domain. I then later installed WordPress and had all the content transferred over.

    Here’s a few problems I’ve identified so far that may be causing duplicate content issues in Google…

    These examples, myblog.com/news/oldpost/ and myblog.com/2005/05/oldpost.html, both show the same page.

    And also myblog.com/?m=20050610 and myblog.com/news/2005/06/10/ show the same page.

    I tried to look at the .htaccess file but it’s so confusing that I don’t know where to start!

    Any suggestions anyone?

    Cheers,
    Zahid

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  • Not entirely sure if it will help, but if you want to do permanent redirects and you have access to the .htaccess, I found out how to do them for my sites. This post may help you:

    https://theaffiliatemarketer.net/improve-page-rank-with-htaccess/

    It will give you a basic idea, but I think you’ll need more than that. What you need to do is to get the old URLs 301 (permanently) redirected to the new URLs. You’ll probably need to rewrite the URLs before the WordPress rules are applied.

    My suggestion is do a sitemap with very good filters so urls are only shown once.

    I use a sitemap service. The link is at the bottom of all my blogpages if you need it.

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