These links are being shown as dropped SEO traffic as do not exist.Error shown even after valid login - “This page may have private access or the link is broken. Please login to access the private page!!!” https://community.automationedge.com/t/updating-your-automationedge-community-profile/ http…

If the pages are not publicly accessible then I’m afraid the crawler cannot see them to index them. Have you recently moved them to a private area?

It might have been publicly accessible as page as it got traffic, but maybe some URL changes happens from @Discourse side and now not availble. However it contributed in traffic drop and SEO ranking. No change on discourse site or moving to any private area. Same setup from last 2 years at least.

Is it anything to do with /t i.e. topics to /u i.e. user-related post like preferences from @discourse side? Hence link is broken? @JammyDodger

Those links are broken AFAIK. These are missing ID. There is something funny going on too. When I tried do a search I got thise: [An error on a laptop screen displays an inability to perform an action. (Captioned by AI)] safe mode seems to work so perhaps you would like to check out plugins, com…

When I use either Google or your site search, the query updating your automationedge community profile yields no results. [Screenshot 2024-08-19 at 13.53.43] [Screenshot 2024-08-19 at 13.54.35] Where are you getting these URLs from? [image] Anand Tambey: https://community.automationedge.c…

The links you shared do not contain the topic ID. Usually, links are made of /t/{title}/{topic_id} because even when you edit the title, the ID does not change, so Discourse still knows which topic is meant.

@Moin @Bas @JammyDodger - These links shown in traffic dropped section of SEO tool. These links are surely broken or non-existant as per your search.

Good find @Jagster - How to use safe mode to get the issue?

@Bas “Ahref” SEO tool, one of the topmost, crawled these links earlier and shown some traffic, but now dropped as not accessible/broken link.

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Bas (Bas van Leeuwen) August 19, 2024, 12:01pm 10

Which SEO tool? How reliable is this tool?

Why do you think it thinks that these links should exist?
Are you sure these links were ever in Google?

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