Top Pages analysis showing wordpress site pages when it was in a subdirectlry

[morganlindsaycole]

My word press site used to be at morganlindsayphotography.com/Wedding

I moved my site from /Wedding to the root domain three years ago where it is currently at www.morganlindsayphotography.com.  Top pages in the open site analysis are still finding ONLY my old  pages, titles and posts that were in the /Wedding - which are not even on my site anymore.

http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/Wedding/

http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/Wedding/2012/11/04/a-new-product-addition-to-weddings/

http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/Wedding/2012/06/22/brittany-reis-jason-mcclaflin-tiffin-ohio-wedding/

http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/Wedding/2013/10/06/andy-mallory-cleveland-ohio-engagement/

http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/Wedding/category/weddings/

Does anyone know why this could be happening?

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Morgan. Even though they're 404s on the pages it'd be best to redirect those to the currently active ones, that way as a crawler it will be given the instructions that the old link it has in its system has permanently moved to a new location.  Cheers!

[metafser]

I saw 404 page. Thats mean you are right. Its not matter, you can redirect this page to others page. I think, it will be good for you. Lots of 404 page in search results. So, Upgrade your calculation.

[morganlindsaycole]

When I used a 301 redirect from any of the pages with in the /Wedding it broke my site and said

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@morganlindsayphotography.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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<address>Apache Server at www.morganlindsayphotography.com Port 80</address>

<address> </address>

<address> </address>

[morganlindsaycole]

When I used a 301 redirect from any of the pages with in the /Wedding it broke my site and said

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@morganlindsayphotography.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache Server at www.morganlindsayphotography.com Port 80

[RyanPurkey]

It sounds like your host didn't implement the 301 redirects were correctly.  When I try to go to one of the pages listed above it tries to send me to this page instead: http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com**//**2012/11/04/a-new-product-addition-to-weddings/

See where I bolded the // after .com?  that should only be a single /. If you get that changed it should work correctly; however, it doesn't look like the page http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com**/**2012/11/04/a-new-product-addition-to-weddings/ exists anymore either. So if no such page exists and you wanted the old pages to point to a page discussing your wedding services send the redirect to: http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/packages/  (Your wedding packages page).

[morganlindsaycole]

Hi Ryan!

Thank you!

Permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com

Redirect 301 /author/pnkspikchik/ http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/

***Just to clarify, I shouldn't be using this code instead, correct?

Permanent URL redirect - generated by www.rapidtables.com

Redirect 301 //author/pnkspikchik/ http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/

[RyanPurkey]

Hi Morgan. The example that you just posted is working fine, i.e. when you try to go to http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/author/pnkspikchik/ you're redirected to http://www.morganlindsayphotography.com/ and now when you try to go to those old Wedding 404 pages it goes your current wedding package page.  Seems to all be in order. Cheers!