Remove prefix Base established site

#82606
  • Resolved Paul Edwards

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi,

    I’m following your recent guide and reviewing an established site and you recommend ‘remove base’ and ‘remove category base’, but not on established sites.

    Why would you not do this, does Rankmath not redirect URL’s accordingly?
    How does it work with standard permalink settings?
    (Should they be removed from here, or stay as default and Rankmath take over? would these fight against each other?)

    Woocommerce do not recommend this practice but you endorse doing this?:
    https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/removing-product-product-category-or-shop-from-the-urls/

    Let me know your thoughts.

    Thanks

    Paul

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  • Uzair

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    To Rank Math plugin, it doesn’t matter if you are using it on an established or a new website. We redirect everything correctly regardless of the age of your website.

    However, we do not recommend enabling that option for established because:
    1. At best, you will see a temporary drop in your traffic
    2. You will see a temporary drop in your rankings
    3. Since it is a 301 redirect, no one can know how Google will treat it. They do say the 301s pass all the link juice but we have seen websites never recovering to their former glory after switching domains and changing permalinks. A 10% permanent loss in traffic is not unheard of.

    WooCommerce has different reasons for not endorsing it. If you are using the same names for your products, and your product categories – it will obviously create issues.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Paul Edwards

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Great thank you for your reply, that clears things up for me.

    Uzair

    5 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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