In typo3-9 I have page URLs like:
www.mypage.com/page/
www.mypage.com/anotherpage/
Now I need these pages to be available also under links like:
www.mypage.com/test,page,1.html
www.mypage.com/abcd,anotherpage,23.html
Generally, www.mypage.com/{1},page,{2}.html should show page www.mypage.com/page/ and {1} could be any letters, and {2} any numbers. I need {1} and {2} to be visible in the page URL (without 301 redirect), for JavaScript purposes.
Is this possible to configure with some routeEnhancers?
The cleanest solution would be redirects, as you already provide the pages with a new canonical URL.
Similar to redirects would be rewrites, which are handled on server side without noticing the client (browser) (no 301).
BTW: be careful if you only work on the page name as it might not be unique. In the end only the page ID found in {2} identified the page.
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When I first started my website, I had a home/landing page and I installed my blog at myurl.com/blog. I no longer need that homepage and am wondering if there is a way to set myurl.com/blog as my homepage? So if someone types in myurl.com, it will automatically go to myurl.com/blog.
I'd like to avoid any "click here to be redirected" or "you'll be redirected in 10 seconds" type of thing.
There are likely multiple approaches, depending on your setup, but IF your setup qualifies (linux hosting etc) then a simple .htaccess permanent redirect would be the simplest approach:
# Permanent URL redirect
Redirect 301 /blog myurl.com
I have navigation at the top of my site that links to news/
The news is always paginated, one article per page, with the ability to navigate to the next or previous article.
I would like the default article to be the second-to-last most current article. So if there are 10 articles, when the user clicks on news/, they are redirected to news/9 with 302 redirect code.
From an SEO perspective, is it bad to be constantly redirecting like this? Would it be better to change the link in the top navigation to instead link directly to news/9, and keep changing that everytime there is a new article instead?
Search engines expect a given piece of content to have a canonical URL. It's OK to have any number of URLs to a single page but use a canonical URL.
Sop no matter what redirect you have, add a canonical URL and search engine will take care of any mess.
302 redirects are for this. Use it.
I have just migrated a site to a new domain (with new design) and am redirecting from the old site to the new with .htaccess and redirect 301. Since the new site is quite different, I'm concerned that users might be disoriented. Is there a way to have a popup on the new site that users get only if they have been redirected from the old site? Have been searching on this but keywords seem to lead only to stuff on popup redirects to another site.
I can think of several ways to do it:
Redirect in the 301 to another page (www.blah.com/tour instead of www.blah.com) and there i would put the logic to show the popup
Redirect in the 301 to another page and there set a cookie and redirect to the original page. Then, add logic to the original page to show the popup if the cookie is present (and delete the cookie)
Check the referrer in the new site and if it matches the old one, show the popup
Your problem boils down to detecting a request that has come via a 301 redirect - popups and usability are a separate (simpler?!) issue.
Unfortunately, detecting a 301 redirect is one of those inexact things that requires a mixture of techniques to get near to 100%. I say near, but never quite there - a bit like browser detection.
One option is to append a querystring (GET) parameter to the redirected URL, e.g.
www.example.com/LandingPage.html?isRedirected=true
You could also set the same info in a cookie (but won't work if cookies are disabled or cleared).
Another option is checking the Referrer header - but again, these may differ based on browser implementation and can be faked, although if someone's faking a redirect I don't think you need to worry about guiding them through your new design!
I am currently working with a client to redevelop their website. One of the final things I need to do before launch, is to make sure that their old website's pages are correctly redirected to the new URL structure of the new website.
Unfortunately, when I check Google to see how their current site is indexed, this relatively small website appears to have over 1500 pages indexed.
When I look at the indexed links on Google, many appear to be duplicates of the same page, but because of the terrible URI structure used on the old website, Google treats them differently.
For example, the 'Map' page is indexed at least twice on Google, under the following 2 URLs:
www.website.com/frame_page-map.html?mp_session=iris7k85851j05q55piqci31u3&mp_session=iris7k85851j05q55piqci31u3?page_code=map&mp_session=iris7k85851j05q55piqci31u3&mp_session=iris7k85851j05q55piqci31u3
www.website.com/frame_page-map.html?mp_session=sel6m8j5cu8lulep4dqa32sne7&mp_session=sel6m8j5cu8lulep4dqa32sne7?page_code=map&mp_session=sel6m8j5cu8lulep4dqa32sne7&mp_session=sel6m8j5cu8lulep4dqa32sne7
Only the session name is different in the URL (and I have no idea why it is repeated four times in a single URL, either).
For reference, the replacement URL for this page is:
www.website.com/contact/map
My question is: How do I setup a redirect for these multiple records on Google? Do I simply set-up the redirect for the old URL minus all of the URI parameters (i.e. www.website.com/frame_page-map.html) or is there another better method to do this?
Thanks for any help you might be able to offer!
It depends on what your goals are. If you don't care about the querystrings then setup a 301 (permanent redirect) that points to just your root page - map.html. To prevent google from indexing querystring params as separate pages use the canonical tag and have it reference the parent. This isn't guaranteed to work, but google takes your canonical into consideration when indexing.
If you care about the querystring values then you will have to setup a redirect for each one. There is a querystring parameter that you can append to your redirects that will tell it to be ignored so you don't have to write a regex that detects it.
I've a question for you, i need to maintain two sites (let's name them example.com and yyy.com), they will be something like an alias.
I want visitors to be able to access the pages with same content via both of them.
what's the best way of doing this without getting in trouble with search engines?
I know about the 301 redirect, but i want visitors to stay on example.com or yyy.com, same name to show up in address bar, not to be redirected.
One thing you could do is to use the rel=canonical tag on the pages of the site you consider to be "the copy".
Basically, in the head section of each page's HTML you can tell which page on the "original" site has the same content.
So if (for instance) your sites are called www.yourmainsite.com and www.yoursecondsite.com, you should tag testpage.htm on yoursecondsite.com like this:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yourmainsite.com/testpage.htm"/>
See here for more details.
Otherwise you can simply tell search engines not to index yoursecondsite.com in your robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Warning: I'm not an SEO person. I did have to implement something similar, but take my advice with a grain of salt
From the theoretical point, "Content-Location" HTTP header was invented for this as defined here and explained here.
However, search engines prefer "canonical" link tag (as in Paolo's explanation) for the same purpose because "Content-Location" header is mostly being misused by the web designers.
I would probably use both.