Removing parent slugs

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  • Resolved Niklas

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hi,

    I was considering using the “Remove parent slugs” function as our urls get quite long. Hierarchy can be Category – Subcategory -Subcategory – Product

    Im using the automatic redirection function, but enabling this option will then create huge amounts of redirects.

    Is this advisable to do, or would it have little to no effect on SEO rankings?

    Best Regards

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  • Alberto

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    Yes, it is a subject with a lot of research and it seems it is important to use short URLs (as you can read for example here: https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/urls).

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Niklas

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hi,

    Thanks for the reply. I tried this on a staging site, but the redirections were not created automatically. So if i wanna do this i need to create all the redirections manually?

    Niklas

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hi again,

    I also noticed the url’s for products remain the same, including all parent categories. Is this supposed to happen?

    Michael Davis

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hello,

    You can enable the 404 monitor to monitor and redirect in case any of the URLs returns 404.

    To remove the category base please use the settings in Rank math > General settings > WooCommerce.

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Niklas

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math pro

    Hi,

    404 monitor is enabled. “remove base category” is also enabled, but the products still get the full hierarchy. It only works for categories

    Alberto

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Yes, it is due to how WooCommerce works (they recommend to not remove the parent slugs in products themselves, only in the categories).

    You can check how to do it (and the reasons to don’t do it) in their official documentation here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/removing-product-product-category-or-shop-from-the-urls/

    Looking forward to help you.

    RankBot

    4 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

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