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Post URL in search results

by wAvision
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Why in the world are some of my blog posts showing up in google search results like this....

www.sdfjsdljf.com/%20small-%20dog-%20training-%20guide

and then when you click on it its says not found...

some posts show up normal like

/small-dog-training-guide

any ideas???

i have perma-link set to post name...
#post #results #search #url
  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    That can happen when you have special characters in the title and it only happens when you copy-page the title as opposed to typing it in the Post Title field.

    special characters, for example, would be "" ''.

    You can simply remove it when creating the post, by editing them out of the URL string.
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    • Profile picture of the author wAvision
      Originally Posted by retsek View Post

      That can happen when you have special characters in the title and it only happens when you copy-page the title as opposed to typing it in the Post Title field.

      special characters, for example, would be "" ''.

      You can simply remove it when creating the post, by editing them out of the URL string.
      so you are saying that if i wrote the post in MS word and copied the title from word and pasted into the post title field in WP that causes this??
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      • Profile picture of the author retsek
        Originally Posted by wAvision View Post

        so you are saying that if i wrote the post in MS word and copied the title from word and pasted into the post title field in WP that causes this??
        Yup.

        If you actually type in the Post Title Field, it doesn't happen. Wordpress automatically strips those characters out if you do type them.

        If you copy-paste from programs like Word, Wordpress doesn't strip.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mister Rex
    It looks like your URL has spaces in it. Go create a sample post and see what the URL slug is. For some reason it isnt example.com/dog-training-example.

    You should be able to go look at those posts on your backend and see if they have spaces. If they do, you can fix it and it should 301 to the proper URL
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  • Profile picture of the author Mister Rex
    1st thing you need to do is find out if it was a special character or a space. Since it is between each word, that tends to be an error of spaces.

    Go back and look at th epost in your admin and you will be able to tell. While there, just fix the URL slug to word-word-word. WP should then 301 the wrong URL to the new one and eventually the new URL will take the old URLs place in the SERPS.
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    • Profile picture of the author wAvision
      Originally Posted by Mister Rex View Post

      1st thing you need to do is find out if it was a special character or a space. Since it is between each word, that tends to be an error of spaces.

      Go back and look at th epost in your admin and you will be able to tell. While there, just fix the URL slug to word-word-word. WP should then 301 the wrong URL to the new one and eventually the new URL will take the old URLs place in the SERPS.

      I am a little confused here...lets say my post title is....train a dog

      here is what is in the title box of my post

      Train a Dog

      my permalink right below shows........ domain.com/train-a-dog

      when i see it in the serps it has the %20 before each word...

      I do not see any special characters...??
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  • Profile picture of the author Kingofcarts
    Same thing has happened me, haven't been able to figure it out. Will get back to you when I try a couple of things.
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