Duplicate Content / Post Type, Country and Region Pages

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  • October 20, 2017 at 1:12 pm #401700

    Markus Boettcher
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    Hello,

    I have a travel guide website with three custom post types for hotels, restaurants and bars & clubs. WPgeodirectory generates pages for custom post types which have in my case several hundred listings. In addition there are country and region pages, often also with more than 100 listings.

    Now I am running into various problems:

    – Very large pages, e.g. for restaurants where I have almost 100 pages
    – Duplicate content issues, e.g. for Singapore or Hong Kong, where basically the content for country, region and city is the same

    I have already optimised the YOAST SEO XML SITEMAPS SETTINGS for my purposes and ticked
    ‘Exclude location pages in xml sitemap’ and ‘Exclude tags location pages in xml sitemap’ to condense my sitemap to what is needed (http://www.firstguide.com/sitemap_index.xml).

    Here Comes the Ask: Is there a way or some code to disable the pages for custom post types, countries and regions altogether? That would save me a lot of trouble in terms of setting canonicals and nofollows.

    And another related ask: I have read in some support topic that taking out country and region from the the city urls (e.g. shortening http://www.firstguide.com/luxury-hotels/singapore/singapore/singapore/ to http://www.firstguide.com/luxury-hotels/singapore/) is not possible. Is that still the case? I am NOT referring to LISTING DETAIL PERMALINK SETTINGS here. This is well understood and set to only include the city.

    Best regards, Markus

    October 20, 2017 at 1:55 pm #401716

    Guust
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    You can control the content on any of the pages, for example if you remove all widgets from the GD Home sections, your location pages will be empty. If you then do not link to any location pages, then search engines should not crawl them [unless you add them to a sitemap].
    Or you just delete the location page.

    If you would disable CPT pages, then how will people browse listings? CPT pages and category pages use the Listings template.

    If you have more than one country, and you want to have categories listed per country, you will need country, region and city in the URL.
    Otherwise the system does not know which London you mean for example: the one in the UK or the one in Canada.

    Thanks

    October 20, 2017 at 9:39 pm #401827

    Markus Boettcher
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    Hi Guust,

    Thank you for your reply. Can you please answer the two questions I asked in a concisive way. I asked two clearly articulated questions and expect equally clear answers.

    Best regards, Markus

    October 21, 2017 at 12:24 am #401839

    Guust
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    Post count: 29970

    Is there a way or some code to disable the pages for custom post types, countries and regions altogether?

    You can delete the Home/Location page, but if you disable the Listings page, your directory will not work.

    Is that still the case?

    Yes

    Thanks

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