Website issue

Dark Sky · May 19, 2019

Hi all,

I am still learning wordpress.

I changed an url of a page to a shorter url. When I crawled website with cognitive SEO, it is saying both urls exist and are 100% duplicate content.

Both urls lead to the same page. How do I delete an the old url from the website?

Veil123 · May 19, 2019

The old slugs (urls) are being saved in the post_meta table in the WP database. If you are not familiar with codes, I will suggest you to install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-old-slugspermalinks/. It will help you remove/purge the old slugs from the database.

Dark Sky · May 19, 2019

Veil123 said:
The old slugs (urls) are being saved in the post_meta table in the WP database. If you are not familiar with codes, I will suggest you to install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-old-slugspermalinks/. It will help you remove/purge the old slugs from the database.

Cheers mate just what I was looking for (y)

VigPro · May 19, 2019

In the interim get a rel = canonical tag onto both pages pointing to the right version so that search can ignore the duplicate.

MisterF · May 19, 2019

Thread moved to a more suitable sub forum

davids355 · May 19, 2019

Thread moved.

Is the old URL being automatically redirected to the new, shorter, URL? If so, then I don't see any issue with leaving it as it is.

Veil123 said:
The old slugs (urls) are being saved in the post_meta table in the WP database. If you are not familiar with codes, I will suggest you to install this plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-old-slugspermalinks/. It will help you remove/purge the old slugs from the database.

Otherwise, this sounds like a good option.

Dark Sky · May 19, 2019

davids355 said:
Thread moved.

Is the old URL being automatically redirected to the new, shorter, URL? If so, then I don't see any issue with leaving it as it is.

Otherwise, this sounds like a good option.

Thanks, yeah the old URL is automatically being redirected to the new, cognitive SEO crawlers says this is an issue due to duplicate content. I talked with WPX hosting, they are baffled, they cant find any existence of the old URL, yet cognitive SEO is picking them up when crawling the site. WPX logged onto my WP account and checked everything. It is a strange one. I downloaded the plugin mentioned above and it found 23 old URLS, but not the ones showing up as dupe content.

davids355 · May 19, 2019

Dark Sky said:
Thanks, yeah the old URL is automatically being redirected to the new, cognitive SEO crawlers says this is an issue due to duplicate content. I talked with WPX hosting, they are baffled, they cant find any existence of the old URL, yet cognitive SEO is picking them up when crawling the site. WPX logged onto my WP account and checked everything. It is a strange one. I downloaded the plugin mentioned above and it found 23 old URLS, but not the ones showing up as dupe content.

Maybe it’s their cache or something. This is a good example of where it’s bad to follow a tools advice just to appease the tool rather than for any practical reason.

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