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Tycho de Waard (SU)

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1/27/2021 11:37 AM

404 pages are served when a page is not found.
But if the pages that is not found was called as a sub page, DNN reverts to the page.
So, www.domain.com/ghjhkj gives a 404 but www.domain.com/about-us/ghjhkj reverts to www.domain.com/about-us/

From a users perspective this seems fine. Or at least not to awkward. But today I heard that this might not be great for SEO.

Any thoughts on this?

Michael Tobisch

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1/28/2021 5:18 AM

Tycho,

I remember this has been discussed a while ago in the original forum on dnnsoftware.com. The behaviour is because in the Url www.domain.com/about-us/ghjhkj, "ghjhkj" could be a parameter expected by a module on the page www.domain.com/about-us, and therefore handled as such by the core framework (as this has no idea about what parameters or querystrings are expected/handled by the modules).

For SEO I don't see too much problems, as urls like this should normally not be found in the sitemap or in any links from other sites. I never found such stuff in my logs. But I might be wrong.

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Michael

Tycho de Waard (SU)

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1/29/2021 3:26 AM

Well, it happens mainly of a page doesn't exist anymore. So, there was about-us/location-amsterdam and the location has been terminated. Referrer links to that page should resolve in a 404.

Although from a UX point of view I prefer the current solution, I'm having discusssions with a SEO company looking for the ideal solution.

Michael Tobisch

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1/31/2021 3:44 AM

Tycho,

you can use the 40fingers SEO redirect module for this afaik (force 404 urls feature).

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Michael

Timo Breumelhof.

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2/1/2021 3:46 AM

Posted By Michael Tobisch on 31 Jan 2021 03:44 AM
Tycho,

you can use the 40fingers SEO redirect module for this afaik (force 404 urls feature).

Happy DNNing!
Michael

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