Can someone please help me identify where all these URLS to my homepage are coming from?
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Hi. I installed the SEOmoz toolbar for Firefox, and analyzed my home page, then clicked on 'get a full site analysis at Site Explorer'. This is what came up:
http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/www.frs-solutions.com%252Fcontent%252Fhome/a!links?src=mb
I hope that link works. If not, the URL is www.frs-solutions.com
Anyway, there are about 57 different URLS within my site all pointing to my homepage! I have no idea where they are coming from. Can someone with an experienced eye take a quick look and tell me what I might be up against?
Thank you!
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April, my guess is that it's related to oscommerce or another login/ecommerce/trial purchase module. The oscsid parameter is from oscommerce. Someone logs in, then they get variables appended to the URLs so that they're tracked through the system. That's one place to tell your developer to look.
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|Hi April,
Below is a list of URLs that your CMS is creating and linking to from somewhere on your site. The last 19 links are all duplicate content and don't seem to change based on the URL which is a huge problem. My suggestion is that you meet with your developer and make sure that you get rid of all these duplicate pages that are linking back to your home page.
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| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/manufacturers_id/3?osCsid=f32cb213f8d1e0ba56be4276c47d56ca |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/?osCsid=8d71a34515a72396badf0c13360e9a02 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/?osCsid=bd43bd5dc89ee68afc551700882da1b3 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_25 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_26 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_27 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_31 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_32 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_33 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_34 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_35 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_36 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_37 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_38 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_28_39 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_30 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_44 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_44_45 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_44_46 |
| http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/0_20_44_47 | -
Hi. Sorry to be a pain, but I really need help figuring this out. Richard, you said it appears that there is some sort of product sort being done here, but there is nothing on the website that allows users to do this. When I go into edit the site, I don't even see any of these links that are coming up.
I understand that there are 3 different URLS that lead to my homepage. But where are all these URLS such as http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/cPath/9_12 coming from? The majority of them seem to be after the index.php homepage URL.
Tom, you said all the pages on my site link to my homepage via the HOME link, right, but how does that explain these mysterious URLS?
I am so confused, and have wracked my brain trying to figure out where these URLs are coming from. Weird thing is when SEOmoz did their crawl, none of thee URLS even came up.
Any one want to take a stab at this? I am really new to SEO, so please explain things in detail. Thank you!
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Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. So, you are saying that all 57 links are pointing to my homepage via the HOME link. How can the HOME link contain 57 different links?? I am so confused. I understand that my homepage has 3 different URLS. But I don't understand what all those links are and how they can all be the HOME link. Can you please break it down in really simple terms?
Also, the crawl that SEOmoz just completed on this site didn't show any of those URLs......why would that be?
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Hi April,
I'm a bit confused what you are asking. All the pages on your site link to your homepage via the 'Home' link in the navigation bar.
Your homepage has 3 urls:
http://www.frs-solutions.com/content/home
http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php
Richard's suggested link will help inform you about this, certainly something you should fix.
Furthermore, OSE shows you have many pages it has crawled with the following URL pattern:
http://www.frs-solutions.com/index.php/SOMETHING
Notice the / after index.php, the page it is serving is index.php for all these pages, but the URLs can be confusing to search engines and visitors. You should address this with rel=canonical or with 301 redirects.
I hope this all makes sense! It is late!
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You have 57 pages on your site linking back to your Home page. See image attached.
Click on each URL to see what page launches.
Looking at some of the URLs, it shows that there is a sort being done. Most likely from a product search where you might sort by price. This is where canonicals come in play.
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