{"id":15045,"date":"2022-08-04T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/autogenerated-url-errors\/447144\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T13:50:07","slug":"how-can-we-solve-autogenerated-url-errors-once-for-all-via-sejournal-rollerblader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingnewsbox.com\/?p=15045","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Solve Autogenerated URL Errors Once & For All? via @sejournal, @rollerblader"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today\u2019s \u201cAsk An SEO\u201d question comes from Bhaumik from Mumbai, who asks:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have a question about automatically generated URLs. My firm had previously used different tools to generate sitemaps. But recently, we started creating them manually by selecting URLs that are necessary and blocking others in robots.txt.<\/p>\n

We are facing an issue now with more than 50 auto-generated URLs.<\/p>\n

For example, we have a page called \u201ckeyword keyword\u201d URL: https:\/\/url.com\/keyword-keyword\/ and we have another page knowledge center URL: https:\/\/www.url.com\/folder\/keyword-keyword.<\/p>\n

In coverage issues, we are seeing errors under the 5xx series which created totally new URLs something like https:\/\/test.url.com\/keyword-keyword\/keyword-keyword. We tried many ways but we are not getting the solution for this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hi Bhaumik,<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an interesting situation you\u2019re finding yourself in.<\/p>\n

The good news is that 5XX errors tend to resolve on their own, so don\u2019t worry about that one.<\/p>\n

The cannibalization<\/a> issue you\u2019re facing is also more common than most people think.<\/p>\n

With ecommerce stores, for example, you could have the same product (or the same collection of products) appear in multiple folders.<\/p>\n

So, which one is the official one?<\/p>\n

The same goes for your situation in the B2B finance space (I removed your URL above and replaced it with \u201dkeyword keyword.\u201d)<\/p>\n

This is why the search engines created canonical links.<\/p>\n

Canonical links<\/a> are a way to tell search engines when a page is a duplicate of another, and which page is the official one.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s pretend you sell pink bunny slippers.<\/p>\n

These bunny slippers have their own page, they\u2019re on sale, they appear in footwear, and also in pink.<\/p>\n