Minimise the numerous 404 results #144
Description
Issue:
there are a lot of search results and inbound links still throwing 404 errors. It affects user experience, SEO ratings, etc.
Reasons:
Several slags were changed during the site redesign (e.g. https://valor-software.com/blog -> https://valor-software.com/articles). The full list of the links which stopped working and started to return 404 is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DpFrKD1mBOTAEewbggr4ylXqzF_OP6EanBtoAgHlE5g/edit?usp=sharing
What should be done:
Users should be directed to the page with the new path when accessing the old address via the inbound link. E.g. if a user clicks on https://valor-software.com/blog/Figma_Vs_Sketch_Text_alignment_comparison he should get https://valor-software.com/articles/figma-vs-sketch-text-alignment-comparison and not the page with 404 error.
According to the SEO advice, this issue shouldn't be solved with redirects set up in CloudFlare. The more redirects the site has, the worse its SEO ratings.
For more information regarding the issue you can contact @sergeimelnik1980 and @SvetlanaMuravlova