Maybe try changing the visibility of the inserted pages to Private, and then in the Insert Pages shortcodes, make sure to check the “Anonymous users can see this inserted even if its status is private” checkbox. This will add public to the shortcode, and the plugin will render the content for everyone even though the page is set to Private.
Let us know if that improves your SEO scores!
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hennra
(@hennra)
Thanks for your answer! I was a bit too quick this time and already managed to do most of the redirects on Friday. My solution was adding redirects to the .htaccess file. I used:
RedirectMatch 301 /inserted-page-slug https://domain.fi/
when redirecting single inserted pages to wanted domain
and
RedirectMatch 301 /.* https://domain.fi/
OR
RedirectMatch 301 /top-page-slug/.* https://domain.fi/top-page-slug/
when redirecting multiple inserted pages to one location
Anyways I’m interested in knowing the pros and cons of both of these ways (private pages vs. redirectmatch 301) and would be happy to hear if you have an opinion on my solution.
I’ll definitely look in to the “private page” way on some page too since now that I’m aware of the problem (google indexing inserted pages) I can plan a solution already when designing a site. I now found the “Anonymous users can see this inserted even if its status is private” checkbox you advised. I’ve been using shortcodes with copy-paste and changing the slug so I wasn’t familiar with this option before.
-henna
No opinions really over here! (We work at a university so rarely focus on SEO much.)
Your solution seems great. We’d be happy to hear any feedback you have about changes in ranking between the methods though, if you get around to it!
Cheers
