Google Indexed Only 1 Page

[Klement69]

Hi, I'm new and hope this forum can help me. I have recently resubmit my sitemap and Google only Indexed 1 Page. I can still see many of my old indexed pages in the SERP's? I have upgraded my template and graded all my pages to A's on SEOmoz, I have solid backlinks and have been building them over time. I have redirected all my 404 errors in .htaccess and removed /index.php from my url's. I have never done this before but my website runs perfect and all my pages redirect as I hoped. My site: www.FunerallCoverFinder.co.za How do I figure out what the problem is? Thanks in Advance!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Its because your new site is a duplicate of your old site (the listings that appear in SERPs). I would 301 all the pages from the old version to the new one and create canonical links on the new pages. That should fix your problem.

[Klement69]

I have done 301 redirect using the following: redirect 301 /index.php/oldurl.php Http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za I used site:funeralcoverfinder in Google and checked that every single link redirects to the new version of the site. There are no 404 errors anymore. The redirects all work 100%. I did this for every indexed page in Google today. How do I create canonical links on Joomla 2.5? Thanks for helping me, this site is my bread and butter... So does it take Google a while to realize this, or will it work as soon as all errors are corrected?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Not sure how you are checking. I clicked through the first 10-20 links and found a few that didn't redirect.

• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/extras/definitions
• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/extras
• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/component/content/
• http://www.funeralcoverfinder.co.za/index.php/extras/blog-posts

Definitely go through every link and double check.

Check this out for joomla canonical link setup

It won't be automatic and depends on how often google crawls your website. Link to your site from some social sites to make it happen faster. In addition, noindex the old site (via robots and a tag on the page). The more direction you give G, the faster it will fix all the links.

[Klement69]

Thank you, I will go through all my links again and make sure there are no .index.php url's left I also installed a Joomla plugin called SEO Canonicalisation Plugin Plugin in the meantime. I will read through the link you supplied... I really appreciate it! - I will post again if the matter is not resolved in a couple of days...