Dynamic URLs

[Colin]

A Website Audit shows I have 6 similar to the following dynamic URL:

https://www.colinwallacephotography.co.uk/?p=16 (I always use a name not number)

What I do not understand is that when I go to the 'p=16 URL' it shows this page https://www.colinwallacephotography.co.uk/dartmouth-steam-railway that is on my website.

What is the problem?

 

[nshep]

/?p=16 is how your pages are saved in the database. Because you have pretty permalinks activated, they get rewritten to something like /dartmouth-steam-railway. This is normal behavior.

How are you doing your site audit? Who or what is telling you that this is a problem?

 

[Colin]

Site Audit from 'SEO Power Suite'.

This is what it said:

 

[nshep]

Have you checked all of these pages to see if they resolve to real URLs? Also, in WordPress, most problems with permalinks can be resolved by going to Settings > Permalinks and simply saving the settings one more time. This flushes your .htaccess file and might solve your issue.

 

[Colin]

I have checked all the above pages and they do go to the main URLs on my site.

I have just re-saved them again.

This is the Permalinks setting I use:

 

[nshep]

Sounds good. Have you re-run the audit?

 

[Colin]

Just done another audit and it still shows the same.

 

[nshep]

Search for "site:yourdomain.com" and see if Google has indexed the correct domains or not. Plus, check your Google Search Console if there is a problem. If not, maybe it's a false alarm by the audit program. If Google doesn't have a problem, neither should you.

 

[Colin]

I have done the search as you suggested on Google and everything looks fine. Maybe it is a problem with the audit I used.

Thanks for your help.

 

[nshep]

I have done the search as you suggested on Google and everything looks fine. Maybe it is a problem with the audit I used.

Thanks for your help.

Glad to be of service!