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Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation by loom video. I think, it working now and i will cancel the pending translation works if i get this issue again and also increase the site Memory as well.
Can you please help me to fix the second issue which was related to categories 404 errors?
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We're going to handle the category 404 situation here.
So far this is what I checked: hidden link but as you can see i don't see any 404 error and I suspect I'm missing something, a step or something like that,
Would you kindly show me how I can recreate the problem so I can further investigate?
I found after fixing the pending translation issue, categories are auto redirecting to new category URLs.
To explain the issue:
This is the original structure of category urls:
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You can also check all of the category links on our live webshop page here: hidden link
Now, Here is the issue i am facing now:
I found when pending translation issues was fixed, category Urls on webshop page hidden link , is starting redirecting from the old slug /product-category/fonster-priser/ to /produkt-kategori/fasta-fonster-priser/
Although, its not redirecting for custom links now, when you check the home page of the site and click on any category links like this:
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its showing 404 errors, as we have redirected the 404 errors to home page, these urls just redirect to home pages. You can check the home page of the staging version: hidden link
And click on any links to see the issue, i have also attached the screenshots of areas where these category links are appearing.
Now, this is the issue we have many internal urls where we used links for different categories and our category pages are also ranking very good on Serp, most of the site traffic is coming from these category pages.
I want to confirm, is it good to keep the existing category structure [hidden link; to not loose any seo value?
Or if we are going with new category structure:
Swedish: hidden link
English: hidden link
How we can make sure that all the old category urls are redirecting to new URL slugs.
I have updated 1 category "Allmogefönster priser" manually by going under WPML Menu > Taxonomy Translation
but this category is not appearing on English shop version: hidden link
I am attaching all the screenshots for your reference.
How should i properly translate all of the category pages using auto translator?
Please let me know, if i need to explain anything 🙂
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Thanks for letting me know about this.
Well something I saw that makes sense with what you also initially said is that at the moment for example the slug for "product" in English is actually "Produkt" which is, i presume in swedish? you can see it here: hidden link
The Idea here is to fix that first, or you'll end up having more similar issues.
To do that let's start with the main slug for the products. you can select there what language to use as the "default" one, which should be swedish, it seems.
then you can select the English one. Once that's done you should do the same with "product-category" and make sure they match their own languages.
You can see how to do that in a visual way here: hidden link
For now would it be possible to disable that 404 > 301 redirection so I can then test how to have it fixed? because the "correct" category slugs should be like this:
I have disabled the plugin for 404 error, now its not redirecting 404 pages to home page.
You can check the old category links on home page now, which are showing 404 error. Here are a few links for example:
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hidden link
Yes, For category slugs [product-category] & [produkt-kategori] are good practice. I am just a bit unsure about their Seo impact for our ranking category pages which are ranking very good on serp.
Also, is there any way we can make sure all the existing links of categories points to correct urls, like English versions go to English category pages and Swedish category versions go to Swedish pages, can we do this without manual updates as we have a lot of contents to update, if it needs to update manually i would prefer to keep the old category slug and just use /en for english version?
I don`t want to translate our site`s tag pages for blog tags and product tags, is there any way i can prevent tag pages to be translated. As too much tag pages will make SEO crawl budget high and it will affect negatively for site seo.
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Ok, let's see
the 404 link is this one: hidden link
But that's expected since the "correct" link is: hidden link
so it's expected to have that 404 appearing there.
Now, I'm not a SEO expert but I have worked on it in the past and if you're afraid that the Swedish version with the "product-category" slug ranked well and won't now, I can assure you it was not because of the slug but the content.
If the content is the same and it's still ranking nicely, then you can create 301 rules to move all the product-category slugs from Swedish into the "correct" one with the "produkt-kategori" slug and that should do the trick (it may have a small temporary decrease that will return to normal as soon as the search engines go straight to the new URL and index them properly).
That way you can have the correct link nomenclature across your languages. but otherwise you can invert them and have "product-category" in Swedish and something else in English (like product-category-en, for example) in English, that would work as well.
What would you like to do next? I can try to guide you with steps 🙂
Yes, the category pages are ranking well now. I just wanted to keep them ranking after pushing the Multilingual version.
Then, do i need to make custom redirects for each of the category pages from old slug /product-category/fonster-priser/ to /produkt-kategori/fonster-priser/ ?
I was just expecting if it can be done in some ways by wpml like its redirecting other Urls, if there is any way to do this 🙂
Also, can you please suggest how can i avoid tag pages to be translated in other languages. I want to keep tag pages to be showing in primary languages Swedish only to avoid creating many pages for each translation.
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Well, WPML doesn't really handle categories, mainly because it doesn't tend to "change" the original content, only the translation. in here what happened is that originally the site was configured in some ways as if it was in English and in others as if it was Swedish, so once WPML was installed things just got more complicated due to now being another language.
There's no need to do each redirection separately but you could try to ask an AI like Chat GPT to create an HTACCESS rule to apply to content in swedish alone and not English and redirect the incorrect slug to the new one. that usually results in a few lines of code that catches the "case" instead of the single URL.
Thanks for the suggestions, then i will try to update htaccess for existing categories to map them to new correct Swedish urls.
Can you please help, how can i avoid tag pages to be translated in other languages. I want to keep tag pages to be showing in primary languages Swedish only to avoid creating many pages for each translation.
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Well, since you're running an e-commerce I'd recommend against not translating content.
You don't have to translate the tags, you can duplicate them maybe by creating a dummy product, adding all the tags you have to it and then click the "duplicate" button instead of translating them.
This way they will cause no maintenance but they will exist in all languages and be applied to all possible filters which is extremely important for e-commerces.
