[Support request] Multiple urls same as home page

[nomadiceman]

I have just noticed that there are multiple URL’s being picked up by google that are the same as my home page

How can I stop this? I’m not sure how this is happening. Is it WPSP?

Any idea how to set up a redirect for all of those URLs? Basically, all URLs that have http://www.mydomain.com/page/….?

I have Yoast premium and can set a REGEX redirect but have no idea how to do that

[Elvin]

hi there,

It’s not the WPSP links as they point to their respective post pages.

How many were being flagged?

I only found 2 which are the “Home” menu item on your nav bar and the logo which both point to the same page which is your front page.

Other than that I wasn’t able to find any. Perhaps its only those 2.

To check, can you try removing “Home” on the menu items?

[nomadiceman]

I just cant figure out why it’s not showing a 404 page for those urls seeing as they don’t exist

[Elvin]

Ah I misunderstood the question. My bad.

Can you try removing the WPSP lists and check the URLs again if they still don’t return 404 page?

If they return a 404 page, can you check the WPSP lists settings of the WPSP lists added to the page if any of them has pagination enabled?

[nomadiceman]

it seems that all sites do it. as you can see, visiting this URL https://generatepress.com/page/2/ you don’t get a 404 but you get the same home page

I never knew this was the case with WordPress.

as it always been like this?

[Elvin]

Seems like a WordPress 5.8 issue.

Even sites that don’t use GeneratePress have the same issue. (check elementor.com/page/2)

It seems WordPress resolves to the closest valid URL instead of returning Error 404.

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/06/26/wordpress-5-5-better-fine-grained-control-of-redirect_guess_404_permalink/

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