Hi guys,
I need some urgent help... maybe someone can help me!
I have a wordpress website and the traffic was going fine!
But since I removed something from my URLs, I received many notifications on webmaster tools about 404 errors and my traffic has dropped from 400 daily to only 30.
My old url was:
domain.com/reviews/post_title
Now is:
domain.com/post_title
So what I did was removing the /reviews/ from the URL.
I notice that in google search results, all urls that appears is without /reviews/ but my SEO guy said that is better to do a 301 redirect so I can recover my traffic back.
I have read this advice from Matt Cutts:
https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/93633?hl=en
And he said that I need to fix this via htaccess right?
I need to get all of the listed 404s in webmaster tools 301 redirected to the proper url so that I can mark all as fixed, right?
Does anyone know the command to do that?
Only need to redirect 404 urls to new working urls.
From this:
domain.com/reviews/post_title
To this:
domain.com/post_title
Btw, this is my htaccess content:
Code:
# BEGIN WordPress<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Anyone? Please?
Thank you!
Best regards