VND1
(VND1)
December 22, 2022, 12:35pm
1
Hi all,
I’m trying to shorten my URLs to boost SEO. Is that even a thing in your opinion?
For example:
instead of:
With so many brands rushing to start an eCommerce business during the Covid-19 pandemic, there is now an oversaturation of companies bidding for consumers' attention. Acquiring new customers is becoming more expensive as a result, with advertising...
Launching a domestic dropshipping business with tens of the most loved Shopify brands couldn’t be easier. All complex marketplace operations, such as seller onboarding, product catalog, inventory sync, and seller payouts, are completely automated. On...
I’d like to have:
https://vendo-website.webflow.io/b/ecommerce-customer-retention-over-costly-acquisition
https://www.getvendo.com/b/how-to-start-a-domestic-dropshipping-business
so I’d like to change the collection name from /blog-post/ to /b/
I made that change in the Designer, then set up a 301 redirect:
/blog-post/(.*) —> /b/%1
then published changes, refreshed, tried incognito and different browsers
but it’s not working ie:
the post list links to /b/ correctly
but all the previously published post links in social media are broken - not redirected
I previously successfully changed this way:
/integrations/(.) —> /integration/%1
/product/(. ) —> /p/%1
…and it’s working fine for these old links:
Let your Shopify sellers add your marketplace as yet another sales channel in their store dashboard. They will automatically sync their product catalog, inventory levels, shipping methods, orders, taxes, shipment tracking info with your marketplace....
But I cannot change
/blog-post/(.*) —> /b/%1
Here is my site Read-Only: Webflow - Vendo
And the live site:
Thanks for your help
VND1
(VND1)
January 24, 2023, 11:42am
2
Hey, just wanted to bump this and see if anyone could advise on a solution. Thanks
memetican
(Michael Wells)
January 24, 2023, 5:54pm
3
Do you have some examples of the social media links that are broken?
My guess is they may have something like query strings or hash tags that are causing a mismatch on the redirect wildcards.
VND1
(VND1)
February 10, 2023, 11:35am
4
Here’s an example of a link:
Launching a domestic dropshipping business with tens of the most loved Shopify brands couldn’t be easier. All complex marketplace operations, such as seller onboarding, product catalog, inventory sync, and seller payouts, are completely automated. On...
which I wanted to shorten and redirect into:
https://www.getvendo.com/b/how-to-start-a-domestic-dropshipping-business
So no hashtags or query strings
webdev
(Jeff Selser)
February 10, 2023, 1:48pm
5
@VND1 - You can’t redirect collection slugs (restricted by wf). Change the slug of the collection to suit your needs and 301 redirect as needed to fix broken links.
VND1
(VND1)
February 24, 2023, 3:15pm
6
Thanks, @webdev
I tried that but no joy
I changed the collection slug from “blog-post” to “b”
I added a redirect
published changes
and still got a 404 for the old URL format
VND1
(VND1)
March 13, 2023, 6:35pm
8
memetican:
/blog%-post/(.*)
THANK YOU!
That worked!
Case closed