[Larry Bartley]

I’m working with the Pro-Pack and have a membership site set up at http://earlytxcom.tothc.com/. The directory module seem to be working great and the C-Map template provides the appearance we want. I’ve just discovered that Google has indexed a lot of our member profiles which is also great. However- I find that Google has found many more pages that I have on the site. There are actually 266 pages (counting member profiles) that should be indexed but Google is displaying 1,390 results. The biggest part of these display a lot of gibberish or a few extra characters in the link and go to a blank member profile page. Any ideas what’s going on here?

[Steven Zahm]

@ Larry

Sorry, no idea. Can you share examples?

[Larry Bartley]

Yes- by typing “site:earlytxcom.tothc.com” in the Google search bar or going to https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aearlytxcom.tothc.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=sb you will see all the indexed pages which deliver no content. I just checked again and Google has indexed another 170 pages since I sent the message above. No new pages or member profiles have been created since then. There should be no more than 266 pages indexed total.

[Larry Bartley]

Also- the indexed pages in question don’t start showing up til about page 3 in the results. They’re easy to spot because of the gibberish in the title.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Larry

Hmmm, seems similar to this issue I resolved back last year.
http://connections-pro.com/support/topic/many-404-errors-cause-by-direcory/

What is happening is that there is a redirect loop causing the gibberish. If you notice, the pattern is %25(repeat 25 for each loop)2B

Example
What is happen the url starts out with:
http://earlytxcom.tothc.com/members/organization/Bishop+Distributing/

That’s a valid URL for Connections but something causes a loop and the + becomes encoded, so you end up with an invalid url that looks like this:
http://earlytxcom.tothc.com/members/organization/Bishop%2BDistributing/

That should be valid, but isn’t and WordPress loops again, this time the % is encoded, so you end up with a URL that looks like this:
http://earlytxcom.tothc.com/members/organization/Bishop%252BDistributing/

And it loops again…
http://earlytxcom.tothc.com/members/organization/Bishop%25252BDistributing/

So that is where the repeating 25 is being created.

As for why, honestly I don’t know.

If I refine the site query to just the names, I get 286. This is about right. But at there very beginning there seems to be some names that don’t exist or maybe they do and they are unlisted:
site:earlytxcom.tothc.com/members/name/

Google should fined the /members/name/ because those are the links a user can click on on the /members/ page.

What curious is the errors are all in the /members/organization/ url:
site:earlytxcom.tothc.com/members/organization/

That is a query based url. I don’t see how Google would be able to find those links unless they were exposed on a page on your site somewhere. I poked around you site and I didn’t see anything that jumped out at me. Do you know of any pages where you might have included those links?

Another question. On the Connections : Settings admin page under the Advanced tab; do you have the Organization option checked under the Links section?

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