How to change URL structure in google webmasters

[Michael.Leonard]

Is there any way to ask google to indexed the website in following URL structure

abc.com/category/postname  (I have this structure on my website)

But Currently google indexed my website posts as - abc.com/postname/category

How I can tell google to follow the right structure?

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

Could you provide an example? I am not seeing this in my crawl of your site or on Google. Just want to make sure I am looking for the right thing!

In the meantime, I would check your sitemaps, canonical tags, and internal links to make sure that all of these items are following the proper structure that you wish for Google to follow. I would also check your backlinks and make sure that those are up to date as well.

Chances are Google is finding the indexed URL in it's crawls and more often than not, it's because there's an issue with how it's listed somewhere on your website or in your sitemap. After you correct or find the issue, resubmit your sitemap to both Google and Bing.

Hope this helps! Good luck!
Patrick

[Michael.Leonard]

Hi Patrick,

In webmaster tools, URL is - http://www.guitarcontrol.com/mastering-chords-and-harmony/dvd-preview-clips

But in actually URL is - http://www.guitarcontrol.com/dvd-preview-clips/mastering-chords-and-harmony

So that is the issue? I just need to resubmit the sitemap?

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

When I access your sitemap at http://www.guitarcontrol.com/sitemap.xml, you'll see it hasn't been updated since 2010. These old URLs point to an old site as well. I would definitely update this!

You'll need to create a new sitemap XML, upload it to your site, and then resubmit it to Google and Bing. You can learn more on how to create one here.

Let me know if you need anymore help!