{"id":28555,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/changing-your-sites-structure-and-design\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:47:44","slug":"changing-your-sites-structure-and-design","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/changing-your-sites-structure-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing your site&#8217;s structure and design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing URLs is not the same as creating pages at new addresses. Yandex states the failure directly: create a new page and the robot indexes <strong>both<\/strong>, and they appear in results as two separate pages.<\/p>\n<h2>Changing the structure \u2014 the procedure<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>301 redirect<\/strong> from old to new. The robot indexes the target and removes the old page. Chains are permitted, and the final destination is what gets indexed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Verify the new URL<\/strong> returns <code>200 OK<\/code> with content, using the server response check, and that important pages are not blocked in <code>robots.txt<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For pages that no longer exist:<\/strong> if the topic is unchanged and a comparable page exists, redirect to the relevant section. If the structure and content genuinely changed, the old pages <strong>must return 404<\/strong> so they are removed after re-crawling. Blocking them in <code>robots.txt<\/code> speeds removal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Submit for reindexing<\/strong> \u2014 new pages appear within two weeks, and <em>old pages carrying redirects can also be submitted<\/em> so the robot notices the redirect faster. That second trick is rarely used and shortens the transition materially.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update the sitemap<\/strong> and resubmit or upload a new one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update the navigation menu<\/strong>, and use the External links report to find third-party sites still pointing at old URLs \u2014 then ask them to update.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Changing the design without changing URLs<\/h2>\n<p>A redesign has its own failure modes, all of them silent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Content generated by JavaScript is not indexed.<\/strong> What should rank must be present in the HTML returned immediately on request.<\/li>\n<li>Check that the new templates do not carry a <code>robots<\/code> <code>noindex<\/code> meta tag, or a <code>rel=\"canonical\"<\/code> pointing at another page \u2014 a canonical aimed at the home page or the catalogue root is a standard template default and it removes every new page from search.<\/li>\n<li>Check that every opening <code>noindex<\/code> element is closed.<\/li>\n<li>Check that <code>title<\/code> and the meta tags are correctly populated on the new templates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The pattern<\/h2>\n<p>Structural changes fail loudly; redesigns fail quietly. A redesign that keeps every URL can still remove a site from search through one inherited canonical tag, and nothing about the site looks wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing URLs is not the same as creating pages at new addresses. Yandex states the failure directly: create a new page and the robot indexes both, and they appear in results as two separate pages. Changing the structure \u2014 the procedure 301 redirect from old to new. The robot indexes the target and removes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":131,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[772],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28555","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-advice-for-webmasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29102,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28555\/revisions\/29102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28555"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}