Hi all, Just doing some housekeeping on my instance. Each category page appears to have an associated blank page/URL. For example: https://www.secopshub.com/c/threat-hunting https://www.secopshub.com/c/threat-hunting?no_subcategories=false&page=1 The second (empty) page has a canonical pointing back to the first. It’d be better if these pages didn’t exist unless there is a specific technical reason explaining their existence. I’m not sure how to delete the associated blank page. Any ideas? Thanks, Emma

The second link (with the page=1) represents “the second page of results” intended for non-javascript browsing and is generated dynamically, it’s not a standalone page. Compare with e.g. https://www.secopshub.com/c/threat-hunting?no_subcategories=false&page=0 How did you come across it?

Thanks for the explanation! I came across it during an audit of my instance. It sounds like there is a functional reason behind the (seemingly) duplicate pages so SEO won’t be affected. Thanks again, Emma

Duplicate pages?

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supermathie (Michael Brown) February 26, 2018, 8:33pm 4

They’re not duplicate pages - once you have more than one (non-JS) page of topics for that category, they will start showing up on that second page.

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Duplicate pages?

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