I know this is an absolute beginners question but I cant for the life of me find where to change page labelling to get rid of the ‘styled-2’ label on google search results. Actually - Id like to chage ot to something more descriptive.
thanks for any help you can give
justin
See diagram below. There’s one place for names as they show up in menu navigation, another for naming the final part of the URL to the page.
Thanks Matthew,
On this particular page, the ‘folder’ field which you highlight has ‘EASA-approved-AME’ (see screenshot) rather than sytled-2…
Not sure this will fix your specific problem but I notice your filename is quite long with a space in it. Should just be index.html or index.php. In your case index.html would be the proper way to do it.
Not sure that will solve your current problem … but it is an issue to be fixed.
Maybe thats the problem - I removed the space and shortenned it ! Lets see what happens.
Remember, RW does never deletes anything from the server, so that old /styled-2/ page still exists on the server and Google is finding it.
FTP to the server and delete the /styled-2 folder.
So I can open the folders in the hosting panel (see pic) - is it simply a question of deleting it from the current folder and republishing to update it - or rename it??
If you change the folder name, not only delete the old page manually, but do a redirect to the new page. Otherwise you’ll get 404 not found errors for the users, and you’ll lose any search engine “juice” that you might have gained.
Also keep in mind that search engines will not reflect changes instantly. They show SERP results from their cached versions.
OK thanks - I suspect redirects may be beyond me - I had enough of a job getting an SSL/Https redirect to work that I’m a little scared to get into a battle on that front… (the .htaccess folder with some text pasted into it given to me by the hosting service team was all I could manage!).
Redirects aren’t at all difficult to do. Not doing them will not only cause havoc with your search engine rankings but more importantly, it will undermine the usability of your site.
If you “just delete” the old pages then anyone that finds you via a search engine will get an error on clicking on the link. Do you think that they are going to flounder around and try and find the page they wanted or go back to the next site on the search results? It can take quite a bit of time (maybe as much as months) for all references to the old page URL to go away from search results.
Also, hopefully, you have existing customers that may have bookmarked Your pages. And if your content is any good, folks will have shared links in blog post and emails. All these links will be broken.
If you need help with the redirects, there not hard. Simply map the old URLs links to the new URLs links. Post a couple of samples and someone here can help you.
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