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Isn't the tag results page only showing the links to the articles. Example: http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/2-pain

Remind me what is creating the "?highlight=WyJyZWQiLCJmbGFncyIsInJlZCBmbGFncyJd" ?

Should I add this to my robot.txt?

Disallow: /tag/

In order to prevent SEs from indexing these type of URLs:   http://transitionconsultants.com/tag/2-pain

The Joomla tag system was a selling point for this site's functionality.  So I can't remove it.

The url parameter was configured Apr 14, 2014.   I thought that the URL parameter was the solution.  How long should it take?

The other question is if I set the URL parameter to Crawl=No URLs and assume that google will not index these pages and therefore not get dinged for duplicate content, then will Moz analytics also stop warning me of duplicate content?  I don't see a URL parameter for Moz analytics.

Moz Analytics is showing Joomla 3 tag pages as Duplicate Page Content because many articles are tagged with multiple words and therefore show up on the same tag-pages.

example URL:  www.domain.com/tag/tagID-tagname

I already added "tag" as a URL parameter with Crawl=No URLs.

Is there anything else I should do?

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Jane,

The page source shows that the GA code is on every page.

Since this is happening to all 14 sites I am managing in GA, many that have had the same GA code for years, I have to assume it does not have to do with the installation.

GWT shows the same weekly cycle of impression from 1500 on Mondays to 900 on Saturdays.  There is no additional drop on March 1st.

the ability to remove the index.php is built into the stock joomla .htaccess file.

In the joomla backend, global config / site tab/ seo settings > enable "Use URL rewriting".

This is a critical issue for me.

Is there anyone here that can help me resolve this server wide decline?

Or help me track down why GA is showing the decline but AWstats is not?

I am using the latest version of sh404sef (4.4) and I am still getting a duplicate content issue.

What about using URL parameters in GWT to fix this?   If so, what settings do I use?

I see 1,035 urls monitored for "start" on my website.

Should I set the URL parameter to "Representative URL"?

What would cause all the sites on the same VPS to show a decline in visits on GA but not on the servers AWstats?

However, when looking at the visits using AWstats I do not see the sharp decline on March 1st that I see in GA.

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the ability to remove the index.php is built into the stock joomla .htaccess file.

In the joomla backend, global config / site tab/ seo settings > enable "Use URL rewriting".