Font size button cause Duplicate content on Google
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- Mirko De Marco
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hello
Some of your old template like Affinity (who is the one I use actually)
demo.rockettheme.com/jul09/
..and all others new gantry based template, allow us to publish Font Size button.
The problem with this button are the link who allow to increase/decrease the font size don't content the attribute a rel=nofollow OR noindex OR both. The result is to be indexed in Google with many duplicate content article and pages... That mean:
- Page with normal font size
- Page with larger font size (?fontstyle=f-larger)
- Page with smaller font size (?fontstyle=f-smaller)
Of course this is serious issue because instead to be indexed 1 time we are indexed 3 time and this is a case of duplicate content and result to get a bad Google ranking.
I need to know:
- How to modify your Font Size button for include a nofollow/noindex attribute in Affinity
- Do you plan to add this feature by default in all your template ??
thank
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- prim
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I've added this to our bugtracker.
- Please reply with a direct link to the issue & create a new thread for each new issue.
A template is only as good as the content that goes into it
- DanG
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- Mirko De Marco
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I'm very surprised to see nobody reported this before..
However you don't answer to me to my question:
How to modify your Font Size Button for include a nofollow/noindex attribute in Affinity ??
Right now the only way I see for hope to remove my duplicate content, is to re-publish the Font Size button with nofollow and/or noindex (I'm unclear if both must be used or not). Like that when Google will crawl my site, it must normally take care to this attribute and maybe remove duplicate content from his index...
If I had known before publishing these buttons could pose problems of ranking, I would not have turned on ... especially since this gadget is not very useful ... Now is too late...
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- Mirko De Marco
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Ok so please I need know a clear answer because my ranking is affected:
I found inside Affinity index.php the code who is responsible of the font size style:
<?php if ($show_textsizer=="true") : ?> <div id="accessibility"> <div id="buttons"> <a href="<?php echo JROUTE::_($thisurl . "fontstyle=f-larger"); ?>" title="<?php echo JText::_('INC_FONT_SIZE'); ?>" class="large"><span class="button png"> </span></a> <a href="<?php echo JROUTE::_($thisurl . "fontstyle=f-smaller"); ?>" title="<?php echo JText::_('DEC_FONT_SIZE'); ?>" class="small"><span class="button png"> </span></a> </div> <div class="textsizer-desc"><?php echo JText::_('TEXT_SIZE'); ?></div> </div> <?php endif; ?>
Even is I have disabled Font Size button since many weeks, Google continue to crawl my site and found url who contain this:
?fontstyle=f-larger
OR
?fontstyle=f-smaller
It seem for unknow reason even with buttons disabled, the fact to have this code inside the template continue to generate Fontstyle url...
I need to know if I can remove safely the above code. Maybe this will help me...
Waiting your prompt reply...
thank
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- Mirko De Marco
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Is possible to get a bit of serious support here ??
I need to know if I can remove safely the code I mentioned above...
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- CMYKreative
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If the module is disabled, it shouldn't be loading any code for it . . . are you sure it's disabled correctly? In template manager settings?
I don't see any reason why you can't simply remove that code if it is still appearing. If you have a url I'll take a look over what you have. - CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- Mirko De Marco
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Thank to you for try to help me even if normally is the job of Rocket mods. I noticed since a while the paid support became really bad here and Mods take days or weeks for reply. Many time they just don't reply never... I get really better support on many free components forum is a shame. That the last time I use a template from Rockettheme and when my subscription will finish I will not renew it. Right now I don't have the time to change template and find some others provider where the support is better...but I will do that in near future.
So about my problem you can take a look for example to the following url here:
<removed>
Normally those url must not be accessible because like I say I removed correctly from Template Manager the Fontstyle button several months ago.. Instead that both pages above are accessible (and not generate 404 error when normally they should) and contain others link/url having same Fontstyle attribute.
I have thousands of url like this one (that mean with Fontstyle attribute) always active on my site and Google continue to crawl and find it. For that reason I asked if the fact to remove totally the code related to Fonstyle button can help. Maybe by removing the code, url will start to generate error 404 and like that all reference to url containing Fonstyle attribute will progressively disappear from Google index.
Have you a suggestion please?
thank - Last Edit: 13 years 3 months ago by Mirko De Marco.
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- CMYKreative
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- I don't see any reason why you can't remove that code. I don't know why you have encountered this issue, we have the same button on our site, it's just turned off and we've never had it indexed by any of the SE's. You might want to try adding an SEF Url's component like AceSEF or JoomSEF then you can control your url's better.
- CMYKreative : Graphic Design , Web Design , Printing , Banner Ads , Branding and more.
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- Mirko De Marco
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Using SEF component like the one you suggest can maybe help but will also generate other problems... I read many think about that and the best is to use the default Joomla SEF for avoid conflict with others components..
Ok I wand try to remove the code and see what happen...
Thank
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- Walter Jarolim
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Is there any progress on this issue? I think this may effect on other templates as well.
Thank You,
Walter
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