Missing new pages in Search

[COEDMediaGroup]

Hi,

We are on wordpress platform with category permalink structure site.com/category/categoryname.

To pull in more SEO traffic, we created pages with structure site.com/categorynameand pulled in all the content from category pages to these new pages followed by applying no-follow on category pages within robots.txt.

While it has been a week we applied these changes, we still see old category pages on google search with weird description ( A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt... )

How could we make search results to replace old categories links with the new pages?

thanks in advance

[AndersS]

Hi!

Instead of blocking the old site.com/category/categoryname by robots.txt you should do a 301 redirect to site.com/categoryname. That way you will get the new pages indexed faster, and keep traffic from all the old links etc.

Hope this helps
Anders