Jennie McNichol
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November 18, 2019 at 4:34 am in reply to: LOST MAJOR RANKINGS DUE TO GD UPGRADE AND NEW URL STRUCTURE #517587
Hi Paolo
Our URL structure now includes the additional layer “cateory” which GDV2 enforces.
e.g https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/category/perth-attractions-and-activities/
used to be
https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/perth-attractions-and-activities/Our website is 9 years old with excellent page 1 rankings and domain authority. So it’s not realistic to think google, yahoo and bing would suddenly all drop their rankings on our site so drastically, at the same time.
Thanks
JennieNovember 16, 2019 at 2:44 am in reply to: LOST MAJOR RANKINGS DUE TO GD UPGRADE AND NEW URL STRUCTURE #517395Yes Alex we have. Nearly all our rankings have been re-indexed by google and showing the new url. So most aren’t even using the 404 redirect. But as you can see rankings have dropped exponentially with the extra layer in the URL. We’re spent 5 years building these URL’s with Google so we’ve lost hundreds of backlinks which give us SEO juice ;-(
Thank you so much Kiran! That all looks good. Thank you for all your help. Can you confirm if we can change the word ‘category’ back to Perth and it won’t cause the issues?
This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.Thanks Kiran. I’m arranging phpMyAdmin database access for you.
I’ve just checked the issue with the redirects coming from google and that issue is still happening.
So when you come to this page from google it’s still adding the word perth on the end of the URL
https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/category/school-holiday-activities-perth/perth/This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.I’ve asked our tech team to look at the server log. they have come back and asked which log should they be looking at?
This reply has been marked as private.This reply has been marked as private.I changed the word again to TOPIC then reverted it back to Perth and now it’s adding TOPIC to the end of the url’s. So it’s definitely a bug in the redirection code. I have changed it back to PERTH now as the fixes that were suggested haven’t worked.
PLEASE CAN SOMEONE LOOK AT THIS URGENTLY AS WE’RE LOSING 1,000’S OF VISITS A DAY AS THE REDIRECTS ARE BRINGING UP 404 ERRORS ON SOME PAGES!
No the page still doesn’t work even with the word category
https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/category/nature-playgrounds-perth/
But it does if you add ‘perth’ on the end
https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/category/nature-playgrounds-perth/perthThanks Kiran – we’ve made that change and changed the category URL to “kids” but this hasn’t fixed the issue. Now we have noticed all the category url’s have “Perth” added to them at the end? This only happens when you click on the links through Google search and NOT when you use the website main navigation bars. So I’m assuming “Perth” is being added by the automatic redirection that GD has from the GV2 update?
Is there anything else/anywhere else that could be adding this to the category URL’s, I think it’s the URL redirection through GD?
This URL isn’t working as well as a few other categories when accessed through the website navigation: https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/kids/playgrounds-with-water-play
BUT works if you add PERTH at the end of the url: https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/kids/playgrounds-with-water-play/perth/This URL: https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/perth/school-holiday-activities-perth/ which is currently ranking on google
is redirecting to: https://www.buggybuddys.com.au/things-to-do/kids/school-holiday-activities-perth/perth/This reply has been marked as private. -
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