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RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Alvina — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:50:21 +0000

@carlos-beneyto,

The issue will be fixed in the next version update.

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Carlos Beneyto — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 19:47:23 +0000

@alvina I'm also concerned about this issue; we found about it in our website, precisely, because our SEO expert discovered that Google has indexed urls with incorrect forum slugs, same as @Melafon reported.

I understand your explanation that it works this way by design, and it's not a bug, but this design can be a serious SEO issue, specially for very big forums with thousands of topics and tens of forums (my case). If you could please confirm, that wpForo is not interested in changing it (or create a "strict mode" option that allows that inexistent forum slugs generate a 404 response), please make us know so we can code a workaround for our specific case.

Thank you!

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Melafon — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 12:43:39 +0000

Ok thanks. I hope you fixed this is issue.

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Alvina — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:55:00 +0000

@rexxx,

What is a url? https://www.russpuss.ru/postid/3722/

This is the short URL.

Since wpFor 1.7.1 version added the Short and Full URL.

Please check the changelog here: https://wpforo.com/community/wpforo-announcements/wpforo-1-7-1-is-released/

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Melafon — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 11:45:53 +0000

What is a url? https://www.russpuss.ru/postid/3722/

original url https://www.russpuss.ru/intim/hochu-stat-porno-aktrisoj/

how created https://www.russpuss.ru/postid/3722/ ????

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Melafon — Sat, 09 May 2020 20:29:34 +0000

@alvina Thanks for the answer. I agree with you. If no one will manually change the url. But competitors can use it. For example, every day they can duplicate pages and submit them to the google index. In order for google to find the page and index, just make a post on twitter. Sorry, but this is a critical issue. If you do not want to fix this, please let me know.

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Alvina — Wed, 06 May 2020 08:25:31 +0000

Hi @rexxx,

Sorry for the late response.

Please don't worry about this, there is no problem related to SEO. In the video, you've provided you manually change the URL, so there is no page with such URL, and there is no way that the Google robot's scan it.
So it can happen only if you manually change the URL, and it's not a problem. It's designed to work in this way for the following reason. In case if the topic is moved to another forum, it'll be displayed without any issues.

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Chinese Scientist — Mon, 04 May 2020 18:48:32 +0000

@rexxx

you are a wpforo moderator pretending to be russian

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Melafon — Mon, 04 May 2020 12:44:57 +0000

@chinese-scientist Did you recognise me! You will be a great Jedi. May the force be with you. 🤠

RE: Fatal issue urls Wpforo

Chinese Scientist — Mon, 04 May 2020 09:45:24 +0000

@rexxx

you speak like yoda