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[cm1821]

How can I fix my URL? The title of my page has contraction like "don't get..." and the link of it says "www.aaa.com/donquos-get....com" 

i wanna remove the quos and make the link "dont-get" instead

how can i do this?

thanks

[Bernadette3]

Hi cm1821. Address bars can't display the contraction, so yes,  you will need to update to your suggestion of dont-get. To do this, log into the editor and click Pages. The click on the page titled Don't Get and change it to Dont Get. Any spaces in your page name will automatically include the hyphen. i.e. This Is My Page would should as this-is-my-page

Hope that helps!

[Alberte]

Hi Bernadette and Adam,

On the topic of Broken links, when I did a SEO Analysis using ScreamingFrog, it notified me of 5 broken links that gave 404 Status Code (Client Error) and identified them as "Non-Indexable".  Of the five, I was able to easily "redirect" only one of them (it looked like a regular link) by going to Settings>SEO> and using the Redirect option by typing the broken link.

BUT, I am having trouble in redirecting the following types of links that give 404 error  (it is one of the 4 such links with long-string of numbers and 'preview.editmysite.com' in the text):

https://70308569-138670594981673164.preview.editmysite.com/store/c2/Audubon_Havell_Edition_Birds_.ht...

When I paste this link in the Old URL part and type in a destination page, Save it, publish it, and run the SEO analysis, it still shows up with a 404 Client Error message, and it is not being redirected to the page. I suspect this has something to do with Weebly itself truncating everything before /store/c2 part.

Any suggestions on how to fix this annoying 404 error ? 

Alternately, is there a way to delete this Link altogether from my website so that SEO analytics never even see it ? 

Many thanks.

[Alberte]

Follow-up - - my website is not published. Beranadette is familiar with it.

[Bernadette3]

Hi @Alberte the link you posted is for the editor page and not your live site. https://70308569-138670594981673164.preview.editmysite.com/store/c2/Audubon_Havell_Edition_Birds_.ht...

It sounds like this link ^ is redirecting to the live site, which is currently not published, correct? That will show a 404 error until the site goes live again. 

[Alberte]

These broken links showed up while my website was "published", and I was testing using SEO engines. After testing on my published site, I unpublished my website.

[Bernadette3]

Hmm.. what page was the url supposed to direct to? 

preview.editmysite.com is the editor url.

[Alberte]

A few months ago, Weebly Tech quietly stopped supporting a Theme that I was using. I was advised by a Weebly Customer Service person to switch to another Theme.  So, I started checking out other Themes using "Preview" option to see how my Home Page would look like and how some categories would show up in the new Theme. I suspect (though I have no proof)  that these four broken links (each with a long string of numbers.preview.editmysite.com/store/.....   etc. See my first post for an example) were the result of those "Previews" of the new Themes I did after I was advised to switch to a new Theme. Eventually I settled upon Unite 2. But, my website ended up getting stuck with these four broken links with 404 Status (Client Error), and no way for me to "Redirect" them to a working link. With as many as four broken links with 404 status, Google will not rank my website !

[Alberte]

@Bernadette,

Just wanted to post an update of my Progress with the 4 Links that gave 404 Errors . 

Since Weebly was not allowing me to "Redirect" these Links, I fixed the broken link problem the hard way - - by publishing my website, and clicking every single link on the published site to see if any of them popup to look like any of the four offending links !  It was literally like looking for a needle in haystack !  Once I found them, I replaced the In-Links with fresh In-Links. That fixed the problem !   No more 404 errors !  

[Bernadette3]

I'm glad to hear you were able to fix that. Interesting theory on the preview links as well! I don't know how Google would have registered those, but it does sound like a pretty solid theory. I wonder if Adam would know anything about this.. I'll see if he can take a look at this thread tomorrow when he gets back in.