Check your Google Webmaster Tools and see if you need to use the Parameter tool.  There are settings there that you can use to tell google not to index parameters.  You can also confirm that Google is not under-indexing your site, in which case you don't have to worry about the parametered URLs at all. If you have canonical tags in place that will do the trick.

Yes, it's answered.  Thanks to Streamline, I appreciate the response.

Hi,

My client's site has GA tracking code gathering correct data on the site, but the pages are listed in GA as having /index.php at the end of every URL, although this does not appear when you visit the site pages.

Even if there is a redirect happening for site visitors, shouldn't GA be showing the pages as their redirect destination, i.e. the URL that visitors actually see?

Could this discrepancy be adversely affecting my search performance?

Example page:  http://freshstarttax.com/innocent-spouse/ shows up in GA as http://freshstarttax.com/innocent-spouse/index.php

thanks

In Wordpress your main blog page is likely using one template while an individual blog post is using another.  If you are using a plugin, it may be adding the rel code to one template but not the other.  If you did a manual edit, which is usually what you have to do in this situation, then you may have only edited the blog template, or the "loop" code, but not the "single.php" document which is usually the default template for a single post page.

Wordpress will run the loop on an archive page but not on an individual blog page, so this is a separate instance of the author link and has to be installed on its own.

If you have the Firebug tool in Firefox you can look at the HTML of the page and see which template is being used by Wordpress, because most themes will put a "body class="templatename" to match the name of the wp template, so you'll know what document to edit.

If you need the markup for rel="author" you can find it here:

good luck, let me know if you want me to take a look.

Check your Google Webmaster Tools and see if you need to use the Parameter tool.  There are settings there that you can use to tell google not to index parameters.  You can also confirm that Google is not under-indexing your site, in which case you don't have to worry about the parametered URLs at all. If you have canonical tags in place that will do the trick.