Name Path in URL

Resolved mbakerciu10
(@mbakerciu10)

5 years, 5 months ago

My site is doing something odd. I think something is going on between Connections and Yoast SEO. I did a Google search for one of our pages. The result title had a name appended to the front. It also displayed a custom URL that I didn’t create.

Created Page:
https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/advanced-placement-ap-summer-institute/

Search Result
https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/advanced-placement-ap-summer-institute/name/michael-baker/

I looked at the source. The …/name/michael-baker page has meta data coming from Connections in the Yoast part of the header. I can add /name/first-last to any of our site’s URLs and get a page with the person’s name appended, as long as that person exists in Connection directory.

Yoast header without …/name/first-last:

<!– This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 – https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ –>
<title>Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute – Central Intermediate Unit 10</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”CIU 10, in cooperation with The College Board Advanced Placement Program, invites both new and experienced teachers to our AP Institute.” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1″ />
<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/advanced-placement-ap-summer-institute/” />
<meta property=”og:locale” content=”en_US” />
<meta property=”og:type” content=”article” />
<meta property=”og:title” content=”Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute – Central Intermediate Unit 10″ />
<meta property=”og:description” content=”CIU 10, in cooperation with The College Board Advanced Placement Program, invites both new and experienced teachers to our AP Institute.” />
<meta property=”og:url” content=”https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/advanced-placement-ap-summer-institute/” />
<meta property=”og:site_name” content=”Central Intermediate Unit 10″ />
<meta property=”article:publisher” content=”https://www.facebook.com/CentralIntermediateUnit10/” />
<meta property=”article:modified_time” content=”2021-01-05T19:37:34+00:00″ />
<meta property=”og:image” content=”https://www.ciu10.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/qfhmriun9g0-scaled-e1598376563848.jpg” />
<meta property=”og:image:width” content=”2560″ />
<meta property=”og:image:height” content=”1440″ />
<meta name=”twitter:card” content=”summary_large_image” />
<meta name=”twitter:label1″ content=”Written by”>
<meta name=”twitter:data1″ content=”Mike Baker”>
<meta name=”twitter:label2″ content=”Est. reading time”>
<meta name=”twitter:data2″ content=”1 minute”>

Yoast header when /name/first-last is appended to URL:

<!– This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.4 – https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/ –>
<title>Michael Baker – Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute – Central Intermediate Unit 10</title>
<meta name=”description” content=”Mike is an educational consultant in CIU 10's curriculum and innovation department. He joined the intermediate unit in September 2018. Mike's work at CIU” />
<meta name=”robots” content=”index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1″ />
<link rel=”canonical” href=”https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/advanced-placement-ap-summer-institute/name/michael-baker/” />
<meta property=”og:locale” content=”en_US” />
<meta property=”og:type” content=”article” />
<meta property=”og:title” content=”Michael Baker – Advanced Placement (AP) Summer Institute – Central Intermediate Unit 10″ />
<meta property=”og:description” content=”Mike is an educational consultant in CIU 10's curriculum and innovation department. He joined the intermediate unit in September 2018. Mike's work at CIU” />
<meta property=”og:url” content=”https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/advanced-placement-ap-summer-institute/name/michael-baker/” />
<meta property=”og:site_name” content=”Central Intermediate Unit 10″ />
<meta property=”article:publisher” content=”https://www.facebook.com/CentralIntermediateUnit10/” />
<meta property=”article:modified_time” content=”2021-01-05T19:37:34+00:00″ />
<meta property=”og:image” content=”https://www.ciu10.org/wp-content/uploads/connections-images/michael-baker/Connections-Directory-CIU-10-Logo-bdaf1ab973db39a437b4a2cce213a13b.jpg” />
<meta property=”og:image:width” content=”800″ />
<meta property=”og:image:height” content=”800″ /><meta property=”og:image” content=”https://www.ciu10.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/qfhmriun9g0-scaled-e1598376563848.jpg” />
<meta property=”og:image:width” content=”2560″ />
<meta property=”og:image:height” content=”1440″ />
<meta name=”twitter:card” content=”summary_large_image” />
<meta name=”twitter:title” content=”Michael Baker” />
<meta name=”twitter:description” content=”Mike is an educational consultant in CIU 10's curriculum and innovation department. He joined the intermediate unit in September 2018. Mike's work at CIU” />

Any clue what could be causing this? Is there a way to turn off this “feature”?

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Plugin Author Steven
(@shazahm1hotmailcom)

5 years, 4 months ago
RE: I did a Google search for one of our pages. The result title had a name appended to the front. It also displayed a custom URL that I didn’t create.

Looking at the site, I see that on several pages like this one:
- https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/
You have embedded a Connections Directory in the “Staff” sidebar of the page. If you click on any of the Entry names in the Directory, the page will refresh display just that Entry details in the “Staff” sidebar.

The links will be crawled and index by Google given enough time.

I suspect on this page, the one you are asking about:
- https://www.ciu10.org/departments/curriculum-and-innovation/advanced-placement-ap-summer-institute/
At some point, it may have had a Connections Directory, which had Micheal B permalink, which was indexed by Google. As it is no longer present, Google will, at some point, remove that link from their index.

I can add /name/first-last to any of our site’s URLs and get a page with the person’s name appended, as long as that person exists in Connections directory. … Any clue what could be causing this?

By manually adding /name/first-last, you are forcing/tricking Connections into thinking that a Connections Entry detail/profile page will be displayed, which in turn triggers the Yoast SEO integration features to be processed.

Under normal usage, such a scenario would not occur.

RE: Is there a way to turn off this “feature”?

I can look into adding an additional check to prevent “tricking” Connections in this manner.

I hope this answers your questions thoroughly. Let me know.
Thread Starter mbakerciu10
(@mbakerciu10)

5 years, 4 months ago

That makes complete sense. We use Elementor templates. One template has a Connections directory in the sidebar. It is removed from pages that it is not needed.

An option to prevent this behavior would be great.

Thanks for the information!

Plugin Author Steven
(@shazahm1hotmailcom)

5 years, 4 months ago

Well, it will not be an option/ setting, just an internal check to help prevent manually forcing Connections to do something it would not under normal operation.

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