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?

[image] Anand Tambey: These links shown in traffic dropped section of SEO tool. 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?

@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) Août 19, 2024, 12:01 10

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