I’m having trouble with
I’ve created a new site for a client in Wix and transferred his domain to Wix. However, google search still shows some results for specific html files, which don’t exist anymore in the new site. If we try to go to that bad search result, we get an error 400 page. Almost worse, the search result contains old invalid scraped information from the defunct page.
Working in
Wix Studio Editor
Site link
The live site is: www.kokorohairstudio.com
An example of a broken google search result link is: https://www.kokorohairstudio.com/cuts.html
What I’m trying to do
Fix/remove all instances of bad google search results pointing to the old site with error 400.
What I’ve tried so far
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I’ve created an error404 page in the new site. This works fine if, for instance, someone tries to go to www.kokorohairstudio.com/cuts. However, simple error 404 isn’t the issue. Google search points to specific HTML pages that I don’t know how to replicate in Wix Studio to catch.
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I’ve tried to create fake pages to catch the old google search results (eg: a cuts page). However, you cannot edit the URL slug on a Wix page and call it cuts.html, for instance (no periods allowed in the slug). So the closest I can get to the bad URL is minus the “.html” and still errors out with 400 in the ever present erroneous old google search result.
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I’ve also searched, unsuccessfully, on Wix to see if there is such a thing as a error400 catchall page, but it doesn’t seem to be a thing.
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FYI, I’ve done all the setup steps, including having google search reindex the site. Doesn’t seem to help, at least not yet.
Extra context
So, is there a way to mimic a specific url like www.wixsitename/page.html in Wix? or alternately, is there a way to catch error400 on a Wix site and redirect? Is this just a matter of waiting for google search to catchup (it has only been 24 hours, so maybe I’m just not being patient enough)? Many thanks for any tips!