XF 2.2 Google Search Console Post Redirect Issue

[PASS]

I have over 200,000 direct post URLs not being indexed by Google due to redirects.

Google sees this URL: www.website.com/threads/threadtitle.12345/post-23456

When you go to that URL, it redirects and adds a # before post.

Example: www.website.com/threads/threadtitle.12345/#post-23456

Any ideas how to fix that?

 

[Paul B]

I have replied to your ticket but for anyone else wondering ...

The first URL is the permanent link to the post.
That ensures the post is loaded regardless whether it is moved to a new thread or not, or other posts are moved into the thread before it.

The second URL ensures the page is loaded at the correct position using the # anchor.

The permanent URLs should not be indexed as there is nothing to index other than the thread.
The URLs are set to nofollow for this reason.

 

[adnedarn]

I see this on my report as well, are you saying to just ignore it or is there something to change to prevent the permanent link from being attempted to index to begin with? It sounds like you're saying the URLs are set to nofollow so it shouldn't be even attempted and something is configured wrong.
Thanks!

 

[apsmith21]

I see this on my report as well, are you saying to just ignore it or is there something to change to prevent the permanent link from being attempted to index to begin with? It sounds like you're saying the URLs are set to nofollow so it shouldn't be even attempted and something is configured wrong.
Thanks!

+1

 

[Kirby]

The permanent URLs should not be indexed as there is nothing to index other than the thread.
The URLs are set to nofollow for this reason.

Are they?

 

[Wildcat Media]

Are they?

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Do we need to make a template edit somewhere to fix this?

I have a feeling that is why Google is freaking out and giving me thousands of error messages....

 

[adnedarn]

Sounds like it. Hiding the XF built-in 301s for Google and guests is what was suggested to me. I'm not familiar enough to know how to make that happen though. Research is required (or someone that knows helping )

 

[Mr Lucky]

More info about this issue here:

XF 2.1 - remove all thoses useless 301 redirect

hello, I saw something really not SEO friendly. every internal links in Xenforo who point to a post are redirected because ...# By example: copy the link of the last thread who got a answer...

xenforo.com

 

[Kirby]

Do we need to make a template edit somewhere to fix this?

Yes, I think this would make sense - see https://xenforo.com/community/threads/post-permalinks-are-not-always-marked-as-nofollow.217031/

 

[jgaulard]

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You may be referring to two different sets of 301 redirects in this case. The redirects that are located on the homepage and next to the sub-nodes on the node pages that target the most recent post in a thread don't use nofollow because they are meant to be crawled by the search engines. These are actually helpful because they target posts on deep thread pages. The redirects that exist on the thread pages that are used as permalinks use nofollow because there's no reason to crawl these. They're circular and they target the same page as the one they exist upon. These permalink redirects are helpful for users because they can link to an exact post within a thread. But again, Google has no reason to crawl these.