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  • May 7, 2016 at 10:45 am #628580
    Hokuspokus

    Hi Support-Team,
    i have bought 6 times your theme for me and clients.
    i have analyzed URLs of my clients with my professional seo-software.
    And at all pages, i have the original url path and a duplicate path with additional dynamic url sub-code with “?s=”.
    I think, the search button is also indexable or it’s a problem around search button?
    On the one hand, this is duplicate content. Both URLS are available. This is not good and google will penalize duplicate content.
    On the next hand, dynamic urls are not preferred by google.
    “URLs that contain dynamic characters like “?”, “_” and parameters are not user-friendly, while they are not descriptive and are harder to memorize. To increase your pages’ chances to rank, it’s best to setup dynamic URLs so that they would be descriptive and include keywords, not numbers in parameters. As Google Webmaster Guidelines state, “URLs should be clean coded for best practice, and not contain dynamic characters.”
    The third is, this pages have also a canocial tag.
    The fourth is: I have massive duplicate titles and meta dscriptions etc.
    The fifth is, i have now the double amount of pages on my site which have errors in HTML and CSS markup.
    And the Last: This pages with the additional code are restricted from indexing but vissible for google bot.
    Please take this urgent into account and repair this. I have some trouble and some rankings are fallen.
    I track the ranking with my seo-software and i can see an impact.

    Cheers

    Arne

    May 10, 2016 at 8:47 am #629738
    Andy

    Hey webdesigngettorf,

    Does this happen for you when using a default WordPress theme as well?

    Which SEO software are you using? we recommend to work with Yoast SEO plugin.

    Best regards,
    Andy

    May 17, 2016 at 1:15 pm #633721
    pete4u

    Hi all,

    the same at my site:

    …
    And at all pages, i have the original url path and a duplicate path with additional dynamic url sub-code with “?s=”.
    I think, the search button is also indexable or it’s a problem around search button?
    On the one hand, this is duplicate content. Both URLS are available. This is not good and google will penalize duplicate content.
    ….

    Thank you for help!

    Regards
    Peter

    May 18, 2016 at 6:44 am #634191
    Rikard

    Hi,

    WordPress is the largest publishing platform on the web and I’m pretty sure Google and other search engines can tell the difference static and dynamic URLs, so I don’t think you will have any problems because of this. This is default WordPress functionality and nothing our theme is affecting.

    Regards,
    Rikard

    August 7, 2016 at 7:41 am #669418
    tech500

    I have the same problem with Enfold + Yoast SEO Pro

    ?s=

    Enfold should handle these inside the theme itself.
    Any solution for that?
    How to eliminate url’s with ?s= ?

    Thanks

    August 7, 2016 at 4:58 pm #669490
    Hokuspokus

    Hey, i’m not sure, what is the influence for SEO and ranking. For me, it’s not fine if some tools show me some dynamic results and duplicate content. Yoast is for me semi-professional in the free version, but good for basics and good for real time OnPage optimization. There are so many points over the horizon, which you must determine, if you want to rank better.

    Please try to add into your robots.txt this:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /?s=

    Please send a status back, what happen after this.

    Cheers

    Seolotsen

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Hokuspokus.
    August 10, 2016 at 3:45 pm #670878
    Yigit

    Hi,

    @seolotsen Thanks for sharing!

    Best regards,
    Yigit

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