Incorrect URL addresses does work, why?
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Video to my problem:
https://www.useloom.com/share/5cabb4279ab349258612fbf6f9ae3270If i change product-category/woman/jeans/ to product-category/whateveriwant/jeans/ it still take me to the first url. I can change “woman” to anything and it still take me to the “woman jeans” category. I cant possible see how this can be good for SEO and i would like to fix.
The problem i have seams to across all WooCommerce sites so it’s just my problem, it’s everybody problem. Any solution to it?
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Hey @stylingwebben – I can indeed reproduce what you’re saying, changing or deleting category names doesn’t affect the site from working:
Link to image: http://cld.wthms.co/f9Xp8dFirst of all, I don’t think this is problematic for SEO. Search Engines will log your site and make sure that all available URLs are registered. This is more of a random URL.
However, it also has two advantages:
- You don’t get as many 404s on your page. This is way worse for SEO. If someone makes a mistake on your site in the URL, you’ll still get SEO points because you don’t hit a dead URL
- Next to that, if you ever want to change categories, the SEO doesn’t need to be reindexed straight away; the URLs will still work
In sum, I don’t think this is an SEO issue at all; on the contrary, it prevents 404s from happening and 404s are and SEO issue.
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