marketingsmg

That’s correct because the main language for the website is italian… but it’s not clear whether we should add anything in the slug field for the other languages… actually it generates the slug by itself adding automatically the hreflang…

Does it work as I said or actually we have to manually add “/?lang=en” to the english version and so on for every other language other than italian?

@maybellyne did you have the opportunity to take a deeper look at it?

Here it is: full size screenshot

@maybellyne

Hello?!

Can anybody help? Thank you

I assume the destination URL is a real page that’s editable on your site. Kindly edit it and share a full screenshot of what it looks like in the backend

Yes, here you have the screen you asked for: https://prnt.sc/F1rQIdekAlNe
As you can see the page URL is “https://www.smglanguages.com/?lang=en“

I’ve no idea why the sitemap keeps mantining URLs that no longer exist…

• This reply was modified 2 weeks ago by marketingsmg.

Well, yes. As I said, the point is that on the sitemap I can’t find the proper URL I’ve redirected the page to:
the sitemap shows https://www.smglanguages.com/home/?lang=en?but not?https://www.smglanguages.com/?lang=en. This second URL is not listed anywhere. As you said, Google must have taken it from other links it has found on the website.

In fact this URL “https://www.smglanguages.com/?lang=en” appears as indexed by Google but problem is that this is marked as “not on the sitemap” whether simultaneously the wrong one is seen on the sitemap but marked as “redirected”…

I’m just asking if there’s a way to remove the wrong URLs from the sitemap and replace them with the proper one, so that the sitemap is correct and Google doesn’t keep reminding me there are alternative URLs.

I’m sorry miz, but you missed the point

Of course we are aware that Google Search Console requires time… but I’m contacting you because this problem has been going on in the last 6 months at least (even more, since those pages have been redirected long long time ago).

Actually the point is that your colleague answered that “YoastSEO’s sitemap can’t detect the proper URLs unless they are not redirected through the YoastSEO Premium tool”.

But this seems not right because, as you can see in the screen attached in the previous email, we have redirected more than 600 pages and Google Search Console apparently has a problem just with 19 links, which correspond to the ones I pointed out in the first question (https://www.smglanguages.com/home/?lang=en -> https://www.smglanguages.com/?lang=en and the same homepage in other 19 languages as well).

This means that YoastSEO sitemap absolutely CAN detect the pages that have been redirected or not (otherwise Google would detect more than 600 pages with redirection, but that’s not the case as the screen n.2 shows) and it arrange the sitemap with the proper URLs, removing the redirected ones that do not correspond to a real page with the proper URLs.

BUT with those 19 pages there are some issues apparently…

Does it make sense now?

That’s odd… I mean, we would have this issue with every page that has been redirected, but that’s not the case
There are just 19 of them (19 on more than 1000 pages…)
What does these pages have that the other 1000 don’t?

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