Permalink category-base and duplicate content

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  • Thread Starter Eleuthro

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    Up!

    I have found a lot of methods and plugins for using the structure
    https://www.mysite.com/categoryname/

    But i want to mantain the base “cat” and have a 404 error when typing the url without base cat.

    Thread Starter Eleuthro

    (@eleuthro)

    i reply to my topic hoping someone can answer me.
    Thanks!

    Not sure about forcing a 404 on a URL without category base, but if you look in the source code, the canonical URL for https://www.mysite.com/categoryname/ should be https://www.mysite.com/cat/categoryname/. So should be OK for SEO?

    A late reply, not sure how much use it is, but I came across your post when I was searching for how to keep category base (blog, in our case) for single post URLs. In the end we went with the custom permalink: /blog/%category%/%postname%/

    Thread Starter Eleuthro

    (@eleuthro)

    Thank you Karl19 for your answer.

    I’d like a 404 in order to avoid duplicate content. Don’t know why, but Google spiders my category pages both with and without the CAT slug.

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