Posted by drupallogic on November 7, 2009 at 9:24am
I use pathauto on my site and it works fine.
though recently Google begun to index pages like node/534534
how can this be possible ? any reason ?
I use pathauto on my site and it works fine.
though recently Google begun to index pages like node/534534
how can this be possible ? any reason ?
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Probably there's a direct
Probably there's a direct link to the unaliased node path, either from an external site, or a badly written module, or manually entered in a node body, or...
You can prevent this by installing the global redirect module. This will automatically 301-redirect the internal node paths to their aliases, so that even if a stray link to the node path appears somewhere, search engines will see the redirect and index the correct alias.
Probably there's a direct
Probably there's a direct link to the unaliased node path, either from an external site, or a badly written module, or manually entered in a node body, or...
thanks for the advice. though none of above are possible. actually I'm not talking about a few hundred nodes. Much more!
there should be some reason... I don't understand.