Help with duplicate URLs

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  mperera2014 · Member · Oct 24, 2022 at 8:12 am

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  Hi,

  We’re having real issues with wordpress creating multiple versions of one page and adding a number ‘/3’ for example to the end of the page and causing issues.

  Is there any way you can help us to solve this issue? It’s killing our organic rankings.

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  staartmees · Member · Oct 24, 2022 at 8:52 am

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  This usually happens when you have made several versions op a page by e.g. duplicating it.
  As long as the previous versions are set as concept or are in the trash, wordpress.com automatically puts a number behind the URL.
  The solution is to complete remove all previous pages.

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  mperera2014 · Member · Oct 24, 2022 at 8:55 am

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  Hi,

  These pages weren’t in the trash, I think the issues was being caused due to an elementor widget. We had a sidebar offering our services which was pulling all pages in a certain taxonomy through, including the current page, and so I think it was automatically adding the “/2”.

  The question now is will those URLs need to be redirected?

  Thanks

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  staartmees · Member · Oct 24, 2022 at 12:28 pm

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  If that’s the case you must contact Elementor support as we can’t help with third party plugins and sites that ain’t running on the wordpress.com platform.