Display URL showing Domain ? Category instead of Domain ? URL Slug

Hi @dukearmi

In the latest version of Slim SEO, you can remove the /category/ base from category URL. So it will help making category URL showing only slugs. Then probably after some time, Google will update your pages in SERPs. But when it’s updated, it depends totally on Google.

Hi @rilwis

I noticed that and it’s a great feature! But I don’t mean the “category” showing before the category name. I mean the display/visible URL in Google’s SERPs shows the category name instead of the post’s URL.

Example:

Post URL: https://site.com/german-shepherd
Category: dogs

SERPS show “https://site.com ? Dogs” not “https://site.com ? German-Shepherd”

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/PMTMSMf

Usually that depends on the Breadcrumbs schema, where in Slim SEO it’s done automatically in the format:

Home > Blog (if you set a static Blog page) > Category > Post title

If you don’t want to have category in the breadcrumbs schema, then you can remove it using this filter.

However, this doesn’t guarantee how it looks in the SERPs. How the links are displayed in SERPs depends 100% on Google, and it can choose what’s best to show in the SERPs.

Thank you! I’ll try this and hopefully it resolves the issue. I did notice that the display URL on mobile shows Domain URL ? Post URL slug. So what are the index for the category in the “Home > Blog > Category > Post” schema? I could only see the index for Blog in link you shared.

The index are counted from 0, so: Home – 0, Blog – 1, Category – 2, etc.

You can var dump the links to see what there before unset them:

add_filter( 'slim_seo_breadcrumbs_links', function( $links ) {
    // Only process single posts.
    if ( ! is_single() ) {
        return $links;
    }

    // Debug. Remove these 3 lines when it works.
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r( $links );
    echo '</pre>';

    unset( $links[2] ); // Remove Category (if you have Blog)
    // unset( $links[1] ); // Remove Category (if you don't have Blog)
} );

Thank you very much for the thorough response, @rilwis ??