Hello,
Thanks for your reply.
Since Google isn’t very open about the process of getting sitelinks, you can only follow the best practices. Some of these best practices are:
1. You should have a Unique Website Name
2. Secure Rank #1 for Your Brand Name
3. Add structured data to your Website (Rank Math does this for you)
4. Ensure your website’s structure and navigation easy and clear
5. Build internal links
6. Add sitemaps in your Google Search Console Account etc.
Please refer to these tutorial guides for more details:
I see for some reason in the 404 monitors that I have 4k links that reported RankMath, most of them are not my old pages? what can I do now?
Please note that we only report the 404s. We do not have information on how or why they are generated.
You can get further insight into them by enabling the advanced monitor at WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > 404 Monitor:
https://rankmath.com/kb/monitor-404-errors/#advanced-404-monitor
That will give you more information like referrer and user-agent.
You can also fix these errors by redirecting them to a related page on your website:
https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-404-errors/
Hope this clears things further.
Thank you.
Hi, thank you for the replay
Yes I enable before referrer and user-agent, and I see most of them is from cron system, and that is why I have 4k, I will try to resolve that system cron issues…
But I see some old pages google bot try to access:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)Googlebot 2.1
I think that is important to redirect to the default home page If I delete that page privisly? Also I see that GoogleBot want to access to file ads.txt but I don’t have that file on server?
Hello,
Thanks for getting back to us.
Yes, you can redirect these URLs to your Homepage or any specific page, as this would save some crawl budget that Google assigned your website.
Ads.txt file allows publishers to declare who can sell ads on their website. You can have a look at this article for more details: https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-create-and-manage-ads-txt-files-in-wordpress/
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
Thank you for the info,
I am now chatting with the hosting team, they told me that is 302 redirections better way than 301 with .htaccess file? What do you think is best now I can do to not impact so much on the website (on different CMS) that has the very good rank position and sitelinks on google?
Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
It depends on what type of redirection is required. 302 is a temporary redirection whereas, 301 is a permanent redirection.
So, if you’re permanently moving a URL to a new URL, then you can use the 301 redirections, or else, you can use the 302 redirections.
Please refer to this tutorial guide for more details on redirection types:
https://rankmath.com/kb/setting-up-redirections/#redirection-type
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
Thank you for info
Do I need to specify exactly the link to be redirected using 302 in new website home page? as you told me before only way it .htaccess file? I see like this need to be done
RedirectMatch 302 /page.php http://website.com
on your doc I see only 301 redirections, is the same 302 redirection?
Also can I make redirection on all my pages that is not exit on server redirect on homepage? Is that safe for SEO? or I need to specific link page for every 302 redirection?
Hello,
Thank you for the follow-up.
If you’re going to set up the 302 redirects using Rank Math, you will need to specify them each like your example (for the homepage). Here’s how it looks like:
For your second question, you can also set it in Rank Math > General Settings > Redirections
I would suggest redirecting your 404s to your homepage temporarily until you have fully set up your WordPress site.
Redirecting your 404s to your homepage is not a great practice (confuses users), and search engines mostly treat them as 404s anyway (they’re soft-404s), so there’s no upside. It’s not critically broken/bad, but additional complexity for no good reason – make a better 404 page instead.
Also, by redirecting all your 404 pages, you throw away the opportunity to find real errors on your site and fix them.
I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
Thank you for the info
Can you tell me how can I set up custom 302 redirects?
When I add a custom 302 redirects, that will add in the .htaccess file?
Hello,
Thanks for your reply.
Could you please confirm whether your domain will change after you migrate from the old CMS to WordPress?
If not, then you can also use the method suggested by my colleague in his reply i.e, to set the redirections using Rank Math’s redirections manager.
However, if your domain would change or if you wish to use .htaccess redirections, then you can have a look at the below tutorial guide regarding 302 redirections from .htaccess file: https://www.hostwinds.com/guide/set-temporary-302-redirect-using-htaccess/
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
Ok, thank you for all informations
Only my last issue, can you I know what is RankMath change after I transfer the website to a new domain name?
Hello,
Thank you for getting in touch with us.
There is no need to change any settings in Rank Math after changing the domain name.
The settings will automatically be updated.
The only thing you have to make sure of is to ensure that all of the old domain names are properly redirecting to the new one.
Should you have further questions, please let us know.
Happy to help!
Cheers,
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.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
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