Canonicalization Problem

Enable your “Permalinks“, but i know that you’ve done that already.

Did you know that these are all different URL’s for the same blog post?

http://www.ajviloria.com/about
http://www.ajviloria.com/about/
http://ajviloria.com/about
http://ajviloria.com/about/

Google sees this as 4 different URL’s and 4 different pages when in fact it is only one. One of them will rank higher in Google than the rest. This is called Canonicalization Problem.The solution is to get all 4 URL’s into only one and to have all of it transferred to that one “URL”

Add the following lines in the .htaccess file before the WordPress permalinks lines:

Options +Indexes

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myblog.com

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myblog.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myblog.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

That will make all of the links point to:

htpp://www.ajviloria.com/about

*Note: Replace the “about” before you add it and don’t forget to still include the WordPress permalinks section in the .htaccess file.