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  • September 22, 2016 at 12:04 pm #1186667
    vpnpick
    Participant

    Hi,

    My site started loosing traffic at alarming rates, so I did some investigating to find out what was happening.

    I had one custom post type on my old theme that was recreated, and all pages retained the same URL so I was not sure what was going on.

    It seems that there are infinite duplicates redirecting to homepage

    /page/1/ to /page/100000000000/ all exist

    It seems to do it for all pages as well
    /all-reviews/page/10000000/
    /blog/ and so on

    /blog/100000000000/
    when the real page would be eg:
    /blog/page/100000000000/

    but for some reason the first exists instead of giving 404

    September 22, 2016 at 12:16 pm #1186686
    Prasant Rai
    Moderator

    Hello There,

    Thanks for writing in! To assist you with this issue, we’ll first need you to provide us with your URL. This is to ensure that we can provide you with a tailored answer to your situation. Once you have provided us with your URL, we will be happy to assist you with everything.

    Thanks.

    September 22, 2016 at 12:18 pm #1186689
    vpnpick
    Participant
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    September 22, 2016 at 1:46 pm #1186832
    Rupok
    Member

    Hi there,

    Thanks for writing back. Would you share us how did you test to find the redirection? Let us know how could we replicate or see the issue on our end. You can switch to a default Theme and check again because it doesn’t seems related to X.

    Cheers!

    September 22, 2016 at 1:52 pm #1186848
    vpnpick
    Participant
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    September 22, 2016 at 2:51 pm #1186922
    vpnpick
    Participant

    I found the issue to be caused by using a static front page

    http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/191822/using-page-as-front-page-why-does-page-work

    September 22, 2016 at 2:57 pm #1186927
    Joao
    Moderator

    Did you manage to solve the issue?

    Please let us know if you need further help

    Thanks

    Joao

    September 22, 2016 at 6:36 pm #1187126
    vpnpick
    Participant

    Yes, the link I posted from stackexchange.com details the issue, and how it is caused when you assign a static page to the front page of wordpress. It causes issues depending on the previous theme that was used with creating endless duplicate pages.

    I simply added the suggested 404 code and now all those extra pages no longer index.

    September 22, 2016 at 10:46 pm #1187456
    Rue Nel
    Moderator

    Hello There,

    We are just glad that you have figured it out a way to correct the said issue.
    Thanks for letting us know!

    Best Regards.

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