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redirect issue

Post by Passie_1_5 » Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:11 pm

Hi,
We manage a site (www.mysiteA.com)
Also bought a company and their site (www.mysiteB.com)
We set a redirect so all links to www.mysiteA.com
Strange thing is in google results www.mysiteB.com is also popping up, with link to www.mysiteA.com.

Is it possible to disable this and only show results for www.mysiteA.com?
Guess this could be set in htaccess or robots.txt?
Hope explained this right as i'm not a hosting expert.

Thanks,
Pas

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Re: redirect issue

Post by gws » Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:50 pm

Maybe pointing the domain B to domain A in DNS ?
Maybe useful https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/how ... ameservers

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Re: redirect issue

Post by Passie_1_5 » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:23 pm

As far as I know this is already setup.
Weird thing is both domains are in google search results, link to (www.mysiteA.com)
But I don't want any of (www.mysiteB.com) to show up in google, only (www.mysiteA.com)

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Re: redirect issue

Post by Webdongle » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:29 pm

http://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/
https://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/updating-joomla.html
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Re: redirect issue

Post by Passie_1_5 » Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:47 am

thanks, how should this be done in my case?
It's not a changed site or page. But a complete domain (name) which should be changed to my domain?

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Re: redirect issue

Post by Webdongle » Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:29 am

Joomla global config ... Site meta tags ... Robots.
http://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/
https://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/updating-joomla.html
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Re: redirect issue

Post by Passie_1_5 » Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:07 pm

Could you explain this a bit more? What to change to make this work.

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Re: redirect issue

Post by Webdongle » Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:52 pm

https://help.joomla.org/proxy?keyref=He ... a_Settings
Robots: (Index, Follow/No index, follow/Index, No follow/No index, no follow). Robots instructions.
Not all web crawlers honour the setting but many including goggle do
http://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/
https://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/updating-joomla.html
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Re: redirect issue

Post by Passie_1_5 » Thu Sep 17, 2020 2:42 pm

Sorry, still don't understand what you try to explain here.
My site is setup right in global config.
It's just the url of the other site that's indexed and displayed in google.
Not sure how but it should all be displayed as my site (www.mysiteA.com).

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Re: redirect issue

Post by gws » Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:21 pm

Is site B a joomla site?

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Re: redirect issue

Post by Passie_1_5 » Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:59 am

Hi, no site B is not a joomla site. Why?

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Re: redirect issue

Post by jameslarson » Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:01 pm

The Removals tool may be helpful. It helps you to block pages from Google Search results on your own sites. The Removals tool only allows for a six-month temporary removal.

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Re: redirect issue

Post by Webdongle » Thu Mar 18, 2021 2:02 pm

What type of redirect is it?
http://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/
https://www.weblinksonline.co.uk/updating-joomla.html
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