My Mambo installation has a habit of constantly changing the URLs displayed.
I have search engine friendly URLs enabled. I am using Mambo 4.5.1 running on a Linux machine. I also have Xaneon Alias Manager 1.0.3a for Mambo 4.5.1 installed.
The problem:
If a URL is shown as
http://www.example.com/content/view/111/49
after some time that same URL might appear as
http://www.example.com/content/view/111/57 http://www.example.com/content/view/111/1 http://www.example.com/content/view/111/54
and so on. Note the changing numbers at the end of the URL.
The page pointed to is the same and I don't get any errors. However the shifting URLs are hurting my sites standing with the search engines.
Google is being good to the site but MSN and Yahoo have just turned their backs on the site. The pages are being indexed by MSN and Yahoo but they fail miseraly in the rankings.
From what I have read, that's primarily because my site URLs keep changing and multiple URLs point to the same content.
Is there a solution for this? I want only one URL per content item. So if a content item is number 111, the URL should always be
http://www.example.com/content/view/111/
If I have configured an alias using alias manager, the URL should always be the alias URL.
BTW has anybody else faced this situation where Google is giving your site 1000s of visitors but MSN and Yahoo are more or less ignoring your site. Any solutions for this?
thanks,
harshad