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  • February 26, 2017 at 8:18 pm #752018
    ajmihalic4

    I found a bunch of spammy parameter URLs in the Google index for a site I was working on. The issue seems to happen when parameters get applied to broken page structures, which then somehow get rendered in broken ways, but with 200 status codes.

    See private links.

    I’m not sure how these pages are making it into the Google index, but I am wondering why they return as valid requests.

    Let me know if you have any ideas.

    Thank you,

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    February 26, 2017 at 9:43 pm #752046
    Mike

    Hey ajmihalic4,
    WordPress is reading page/5 as a real page from your pagination in your database. To remove them you can use a 301 plugin or put them in or .htaccess file manually. Once the Google crawl gets the 301 redirect the index will be cleaned up.
    A good plugin is: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/

    Best regards,
    Mike

    February 26, 2017 at 11:05 pm #752069
    ajmihalic4

    Hey thanks Mike,

    I am trying to avoid setting up redirects for arbitrary URLs. I am hoping to get some insight into why WordPress is making this URL pattern valid, or reading it as a real page as you put it.

    I’m also at a loss how Google is finding this URL pattern to crawl. Most likely it was part of an older build they have indexed, and you are right, I should just set up some 301s.

    If you have any other thoughts, please let me know.

    I appreciate your time. Thanks again.

    February 26, 2017 at 11:32 pm #752072
    Mike

    Hi,
    Thank you for using Enfold, sorry I couldn’t be more help.
    Best regards,
    Mike

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