Weird Blog tags and re-directs
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Hello fellow Digital Marketeers!
As an in-house kinda guy, I rarely get to audit sites other than my own.
But, I was tasked with auditing another. So I ran it through Screaming Frog and the usual tools.
I got a couple of URLs come back with timeout messages, so I checked them manually- they're apparently part of a blog's archive:
http://www.bestpracticegroup.com/tag/training-2/
I click 'read more' and it takes you to: http://www.bestpracticegroup.com/pfi-contracts-3-myth-busters-to-help-achieve-savings/
The first URL seems entirely redundant.
Has anyone else seen something like this?
Just an explanation as to why something like that would exist, and how you'd handle that would be grand!
Much appreciated,
John.
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You could always set a no-index rule for the tag pages in robots.txt and then submit all the URL's you want to appear through Webmaster tools using the "Fetch as Google" option. Another thing I would do is to only have the URL's you want to be indexed and focused on included in the sitemap, and the rest excluded. This should cut back on the strange or redundant URL's getting indexed and showing up.
Something like:
Disallow: /tag/or
Disallow: /http://www.bestpracticegroup.com/tag/
Hope this helps!
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