: If you are using JavaScript to show content, the Googlebot won't be able to crawl that content and see it the same way that visitors can. Let me illustrate: You had a single post called

@BetL925

If you are using JavaScript to show content, the Googlebot won't be able to crawl that content and see it the same way that visitors can. Let me illustrate:


You had a single post called "My Post" on the URL /single.php?id=my-post
You redirect that now to /index.php?id=my-post
That page now serves up your home page (this is what Googlbot sees)
JavaScript sees the id=my-post on the home page and shows the content for my-post (this is what users see).


You have effectively hidden your content from Googlebot. Furthermore, you have tons of URLs on your site that all show the home page. This is a massive duplicate content problem that is likely telling Googlebot that your site is low quality.

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