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My website: https://cryptokra.com/
My menu items “Crypto” “NFT” “Metaverse” “Blogging” used to have this type of URL structure: https://cryptokra.com/crypto/
I have since changed the menu to link to category pages so it now has this type of URL structure: https://cryptokra.com/category/crypto/
However, the search engines keep populating the old structure so it’s giving the “Oops” error.
How/where can I update the info to correct this issue?
Thank you!
Customer Support
Hi there,
this:
https://cryptokra.com/category/crypto/is the standard permalink structure that WP generates for Category Archives.
If it was set to something different before, then did you use an SEO plugin for that ?Hi David,
The Category Archives were never set to anything different.
What happened was, I originally used “Pages” to create new pages to link to the corresponding menu names. This was my mistake, not understanding how best to set up the menu. I thought these new pages would populate the related blog posts, but I realized they wouldn’t.
So then I deleted those pages. And I linked the Category Archives, Which works fine.
My only issue now is that Google is still finding those old Pages I created. Is there an area in WP to fix this?
Thanks
Customer Support
Hi Raj,
I see. GeneratePress has no control over this. You may need to ask Google to recrawl your URLs to fix this issue.
See: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl
This article may also help: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-ask-google-to-recrawl-urls-of-your-wordpress-site/
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