By rogerwebb on

Sometimes i feel like a patient who's been cured of cancer by some wonder drug

...and complains to his docor that a side effect of his cure is a touch of athlete's foot

When you use path-auto as part of your SEO optimisation, new or old links to the traditional /node/x still work on the site but http://validator.w3.org/checklink suggests that these become broken links in the eyed of the Search Engines and damage your rating.

You have - it seems - to use the full address even of pages on your own site and the link would look like

I hope this helps

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rogerwebb commented

Sometimes I feel like a patient who's been cured of cancer by some wonder drug

...and complains to his doctor that a side effect of his cure is a touch of athlete's foot

When you use path-auto as part of your SEO optimisation, new or old links to the traditional /node/x still work on the site but http://validator.w3.org/checklink suggests that these become broken links in the eyed of the Search Engines and damage your rating.

You have - it seems - to use the full address even of pages on your own site and the link would look like
http://www.mysite.com/whatever.pathauto.devised

I hope this helps

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WorldFallz commented

i believe http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect was created to address this issue.

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rogerwebb’s picture

rogerwebb commented

Thanks for the info but i have global redirect in place and activated and the problem still arose

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greggles
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You said:

suggests that these become broken links in the eyed of the Search Engines and damage your rating.

Can you be more specific? I validated several sites that use Pathauto with that tool and didn't see anything like you describe.

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rogerwebb commented

Difficult to be more specific now that the errors are cleared.

It seems to me that the affected links were those in place befor pathauto was downloaded and mainly those 'in-line' within the text though some in primary links - thopugh this might have been the same effect.

Hope ths helps

Roger