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seo.gops
09-20-2021, 01:13 PM
Something weird is going.

I redesigned a website and went live.

We changed a lot of URLs using 301s, which resolved just fine.

But I just noticed that many of my blogs aren't indexed. Instead, a 404 page with a URL that looks almost exactly like the blog's URL is indexed.

The strange 404 URL that nearly mimics my blog URLs has the date in the URL instead of /blog/.

Example...

This is the 200 URL I want indexed: apples.com/blog/red-apples

But this 404d URL is indexed instead: apples.com/4/5/2020/red-apples

My problems are:

1) I don't know the origin of the 404 URL.

2) I don't know why the 404 URL is indexed while the 200 URL is not.

Any ideas?