Incorrect Home Link in Archive/Sitemap Breadcrumbs

I did a quick search for this but didn't find it.

Take a look at the first link (in the default style of vBulletin's "archive") in the breadcrumbs of the archive/sitemap. It takes you to "../index.php/" which usually ends up as "[siteroot]/index.php/".

This is not a major issue as it causes no disruption in website navigation and following rewritten links on the new "/index.php/" page usually resolves URLs to the correct ones, but it might confuse some users.

I'm not sure how spiders react to this situation. Right now I'm assuming that they'll index it as a new page/directory (since there is no automatic 301 with vBSEO's default settings) which is a duplicate of the index page.

...But if there's no other reason to fix it, it'll at least look better.

Example: http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap/[...] or any other vBSEO'd archive/sitemap.

I've attached an image in case anyone had trouble understanding what I was pointing out. I know I'm pretty bad at explaining things.

I forgot to mention the "fix" I'm currently using:

Code:

'^../index\.php/$' => '/sitemap/'

as a custom rewrite rule. Just replace '/sitemap/' with whichever directory your archive/sitemap is. In my example, the site root is '/'.

I hope this will automatically be applied in future versions so it doesn't take up that extra line.

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Good catch , thank-you for the bug report.

As a FYI to the community, this issue appears only when running vBSEO on vbulletin 3.6.7.

I'm having this issue too, however chewbacca's fix will send the link to the homepage of the site, i would like it to go the forum index page of the sitemap....how do i do this?

Thanks.

ok no matter this is what i put: '^../index\.php/$' => '/forum/sitemap'

Peace

Ah, thanks JD76. This was my first time using vB's archive so I didn't realize that the top was the breadcrumbs for itself (not the "full version").

I'll edit my post to reflect the proper usage.

I noticed this bug aswell, but to late that I now have to duplicate pages in google. Thanks alot vbSEO. I thought this software was surpose to benefit your site with SEO and not to produce duplicate content. The worst part about it is that it is actually duplicating the homepage which is the main page.

So where do I put: '^../index\.php/$' => '/forum/sitemap'

Do I put it in the htaccess file, the vbseo control panel, edit my vbulletin scirpts or what. I don't quite understand. I need to do this really quick to get rid of the duplicate page which has already damaged my rankings a little.

Hello,

you should put that in Custom Rewrite Rules option in vbseocp.

Thanks, I have now sorted the problem.

I've the same problem with vb 3.6.7 and I've solved with:
'^../index\.php/$' => '/sitemap/'

I've not understood one thing: why do you put double dots in front of index\.php? isn't index.php the root URI?

I expected the ereg to be
'^index\.php/$' => '/sitemap/'

The vB archive uses "../index.php/" so I rewrote only that. If you used "index.php/" I'd expect it to rewrite your link to lead to "/sitemap/sitemap/".

I hope that makes sense.