301 Redirection problems
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A couple of days ago we did a restructure of our e-commerce site (wordpress + woocomerce) where some product categories needed to change names. I used Yoast SEO plugin to do 301 redirects in the .htaccess file.Today I noticed that we had two hits in the SERP on the phrase "dildos med vibrator". See the attached screenshot (first two results).One goes to http://www.oliverocheva.se/kategori/sexleksaker/dildos/dildos-med-vibrator/ which is the right URL. One goes to http://www.oliverocheva.se/kategori/sexleksaker/dildosdildos-med-vibrator-dildos-for-honom/ which is a corrupt URL that has never been in use. The old one we did a redirect from was /kategori/for-honom/dildos-for-honom/dildos-med-vibrator-dildos-for-honom/The command in the .htaccess file was: Redirect 301 /kategori/for-honom/dildos-for-honom/dildos-med-vibrator-dildos-for-honom/ http://www.oliverocheva.se/kategori/sexleksaker/dildos/dildos-med-vibratorWhat has happened here? Why does the 301 create entirely new URL:s in the SERP?Tz0TULT.png
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You are wondering why a 301 creates an entirely new URL is because it redirects to another outside link it can be outside of your domain or inside.
Your domain the content of your site obviously was from the links units on Google does not look too kindly on sites that we could possibly not being wanted by some households as it is not for children.
I only use screaming frog to do it quick audit of you links your site
free up to 500 pages
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
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Honestly you may have some trouble because the content of your site this however if this is illegitimate business
Please do not take offense at all as some of the keywords you were drinking for our big negatives in this business
For us that are not making those sites.
I hope this is going to help,
Thomas
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