Url problems

  • I installed WP in a folder called start. I set ‘WordPress Address (URL)’ to the domainsname/start. I accidently had the same setting for ‘Site Address (URL)’. I saw all my URL’s included ‘start’ so I removed the ‘/start/ from the Site Address (URL) setting. Everything works fine but…. Google says my home page is https://www.southtrader.co.za/start which WP takes to a page called start which of course does not exist. Google webtools also shows that it is finding tags on my site referencing pages with /start in the name. Example:https://www.southtrader.co.za/start/product-tag/photography/?add-to-cart=804&_n=00b9c77f9a
    This points to a non existent page. NOTE that Google crawled my site AFTER I made this change. It appears that WP still has all these tags and links stored somewhere and passes them to Google. All suggestions of how to resolve this would be appreciated.
    Thanks

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  • Actually, you installed WP in a sub-directory called https://www.southtrader.co.za/start/ that is why Google is finding the homepage at /start/ it is a sub-directory on your site and all your pages are …/start/product…

    You didn’t install WP in root level https://www.southtrader.co.za

    Thread Starter davidgrm

    (@davidgrm)

    Which is exactly what I said I did. But according to WP this is OK. If you go to my site https://www.southtrader.co.za you will see that there is no reference to that folder named start. So the only way that Google could get that information is if WP gives it to Google. That is the problem because what I have done is supposedly fine.
    I am looking for a solution to my problem.

    Looks like Google will always take the actual path name. One possible solution may be, if you don’t want /start/ showing up in the full path name, is to move your WP site to the root level.

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