Search Console - Should I request to index redirected URL or Mark as fixed?

[MouthyPR]

Hi all,

Many blog posts used to be showing 404s when doing crawl tests and in search console (despite being there when visited.) I realized it was an issue with URL structure. It used to be example.com/post-name

I've fixed the issue by changing the URL structure in Wordpress so that they now follow the structure of example.com/post-type/post-name

According to sitemaps, Google has now indexed all posts in /post-type/post-name.

My question is what to do with crawl errors in Search Console that are still there for example.com/postname. When I fetch, I get a redirect status (which is accurate).  At this point should I request to index or mark as fixed?

Thank you!

[slatronica]

Marking as fixed is really a utility for you and does not have bearing on rankings for that page. If the pages are in your sitemap and index health is good there you should have done all you need.

[MouthyPR]

Thanks Steve.

So for example.com/post-name, should I request to index, even if it has the page I've redirected to (/post-type/post-name) is indexed already?

[slatronica]

You should not have too. However if you are concerned this has not been picked up then go right ahead - it won't hurt matters. The reason I mentioned the sitemap in the last post is if your sitemap has the updated URL included, you're already submitting the index request that way, no need to manually do it again.

You can also search using site: and see if the page has been indexed/updated with the new URL yet.