Hello,
When I do a SEO audit on the website, I get duplicate titles for almost all my jdownloads pages.
https://www.domain.com/online-resources/pp/alevel/ocr/download/66-further-pure/example
https://www.domain.com/online-resources/download/example
The reason is that there are two urls for the same page as you can see above, one routed through category and one that is only shows root category and download.
How can I eleminiate the second type of urls to solve this issue?
Thanks.
Hi
Does one of the Links come from the Title and the other from the Download Button? If so then in the Config - Front End tab set field "Use files title as download link?" to No.
See alsohttp://www.jdownloads.net/documentations/item/download-actions-direct-via-summary-page-or-via-download-detailsColin
Thank you very much Colin, both the download link and the title links are exactly the same.
I think this issue comes from specifying categories as one of the links does include the category tree and the other one does not.
When I do website SEO audit, I get nearly 400 errors (for each file that I have put on Jdownloads) with Dublicate titles (the url is different but it is the same file).
Hi
Which SEO audit extension are you using as I would like to test on my system.
Also do you know where the links are located. Are some in an article and if so have you switched on 'Modern url' ?
Also please advise version of Joomla and jD
Colin
Hi Colin, I am using SEO power suite from link assistant.
I think i may have found the issue. I have created a menu for jdownloads which includes all the categories. I think the link with a category tree is generated from this menu even that menu has not been used in frontend.
I did this as I remember some years back, I was using a different extension that needed to add such a menu so that urls could include the category tree.
Out of two urls
https://www.domain.com/online-resources/pp/alevel/ocr/download/66-further-pure/example
https://www.domain.com/online-resources/download/example
I would prefer to keep the one generated from the menu (first one above) rather than second one. What is your opinion about this?
Thanks.
Hi
The link in the jD Download Button or the Title are identical and are of the form:
"/site-related/index.php/all-cats/download/19-topcat-sub1-sub2/48-sw-series-user-manual"
where in this example 19 is the ID of the Category whose alias is 'topcat-sub1-sub2' and 48 is the ID of the Download whose alias is 'topcat-sub1-sub2'.
Currently Joomla! now supports what are called "Modern" style links that remove the ID and its trailing - character. I anticipate this will be supported by jD in the forthcoming jD 3.9 series or the jD 4 series (these are in active development and jD 3.9 is nearly at the beta test level). With this option the link will be in the form
"/site-related/index.php/all-cats/download/topcat-sub1-sub2/sw-series-user-manual"
So I would suggest you do not use the categories menu one but use the regular ones generated in the Download button and the Title as these will be more consistent with the general Joomla! style.
Colin
Editted to clarify last sentence!! Colin
Thank you for prompt and quick response. This solves the issue.