Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing. Thank you for raising your concerns regarding the URL structure for your webshop.
When you enable the settings in Rank Math under Rank Math SEO → General Settings → WooCommerce, such as:
- Remove Base
- Remove Category Base
- Remove Parent Slugs
- Remove WooCommerce Generator Tag
Rank Math will automatically create redirects from your old URLs to the new ones. This means that if you change your URLs to a cleaner format, users who visit the old links will be redirected to the new URLs without encountering 404 errors. However, while we strive to ensure that these redirects are created, we recommend monitoring your site after making these changes to confirm that everything is functioning as expected.
If you decide to disable these settings later, Rank Math will revert the URLs back to their original structure, and the redirects will also be removed. This allows you to test the new settings without permanently affecting your existing links.
Regarding your example, yes, enabling these settings would change your URL from:
`https://rankmath.com/kb/advanced-mode/
to:
`https://rankmath.com/kb/advanced-mode/
This cleaner URL structure can enhance user experience and potentially improve SEO.
If you have any further questions or need assistance, please feel free to reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.
Thank you for considering these changes, and we hope they bring positive results for your webshop!
Sources:
How to Optimize a Category Page » Rank Math
How to Remove the Category Base From WordPress » Rank Math
I would like support from a human support agent, to be sure, what we are doing is 100% correct
Hello,
When you change the permalink structure or use our Strip base feature, a redirection will be added automatically for the affected URLs, this will maintain SEO juice and will avoid deranking the said URLs.
Also, the product URL structure you shared is prone to conflict if you have the same slug with your normal posts/pages. So, before changing the permalinks, you may need to ensure that they do not have the same URL with your pages.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hi there,
I got 2 more questions then:
– I’ve tried to set the settings to on –> but there were not automatic redirects. Not even one hour / 2 hour after I changed the settings. Also in RankMath -> redirects there were no new ones.
So how long will it take for rank math to make redirects , and put them in that folder?
– Thereby this only change the category, but doesn’t change the product permalinks –> product permalinks still have all the categories and sub-categories and sub-sub categories.
Is there a way in rankmath to also change the permalink structure for products?! or is it only categories/
Hello,
1. Please head over to your WordPress Dashboard → General Settings → Permalinks and save the settings without changing anything.
If the issue persists, then you may need to create a series of regex redirections manually that will redirect URLs with base URLs to URLs with no base URLs.
2. Rank Math should be able to the product or shop base and the category bases. Can you please share some of the product’s URLs and the expected URLs after you turn on our settings?
Looking forward to helping you.
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.
Thank you.
