Hi Having only relatively recently come over to GeoDirectory, it has taken a long time for me to become familiar with this system, or at least a directory website built on WordPress… and its shortcomings.
One area that I am particularly concerned about (having been involved in SEO for many years), is that it is very easy for a listing owner (or website manager) to unwittingly change the URL of a place or event listing, simply by changing the category that their listing is applied to.
When using this software, there is nothing built-in that caters for these broken URLs… and as a result the listings and website will lose traffic and authority, unless an ongoing investment is made to cater for these broken backlinks.
Had I been aware that there was an option to have all listings adopt a different URL path (one that does not included the region and category) I may well have chosen that.
I am involved in Ecommerce, and in Xcart 4 this software includes a ‘clean URL’ feature. What this does is to ensure that backlinks are not affected by changes to a product page. So if a product is changed, in terms of its title or Category, the subsequent change in URL (and historical versions of the URL) are addressed in the website and broken backlinks are ‘caught’ forever and redirected to the correct page.
Please could I suggest this as a feature for the future?
Guust 4 years, 11 months ago.
