Many Redirects

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Hi,

I have many redirects (over 1.000) mainly due to products.

I think it is mainly because We have many products with different colors we want to show. So we make one product "t-shirt-red" than we clone it and get "t-shirt-red-clone". Then we change the URL of course to "t-shirt-green" and then we have a redirect "t-shirt-red-clone" to "t-shirt-green".

Any ideas how to avoid this? Or not a problem at all? E.g. crawl budget will count all those redirects so my crawl budget goes down?

Best,

Bernhard

2

When changing the seo name you need to uncheck Create redirect from old URL.

To remove the redirects: Website->SEO->301 redirects

3

Thank you! But what happens if I do so. Don't I have then the problem that the URL "t-shirt-red-clone" still does exist and there is only no redirect so I get a 404 from the crawler?

Best

Bernhard

4

From your original post, it sounds to me like "t-shirt-red-clone" never existed except for the time between edits so the crawlers didn't have time to index the page.?

5

will check but I think cs-cart builds this link at the time it clones the first product.

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will check but I think cs-cart builds this link at the time it clones the first product.

Sure but it removes it again when you change the seo name and uncheck the seo redirect thingy.

7

so checking the redirect thing was a fault? Can I repair the mess somehow?

8

You can go to ?dispatch=seo_redirects.manage and delete unneeded redirects.

9

yes, but I dondt know if the original url "t-shirt-red-clone" then still exists and google crawls it and it is even worse because there is no redirect...?

10

It's only bad if you already have links to the wrong / old url. A url that has only been there for a shory while probably hasn't, so you can delete it and google will quickly find the new url.

11

ok cool, thank you!

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We create a lot of products by CLONE, then go to the Product > SEO > SEO name

We then delete the entry so the new SEO name is automatically generated from the product name.

How would we make it so “Create redirect from old URL” is Unticked by default?

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Changes in the design/backend/templates/addons/seo/common/seo_name_field.tpl template are required for this. It’s recommended to create an override for this template instead of making changed directly in it.

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I did this and created the override. It works perfectly.

Copy
/design/backend/templates/addons/seo/common/seo_name_field.tpl

To
/design/backend/templates/addons/my_changes/overrides/addons/seo/common/seo_name_field.tpl

From line 27 delete checked=“checked”

Clear templates cache.

Thanks for your help.

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