Site Content Issue & Solution

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It's been about a month since I started building my new website, and I just realized that my first posts weren't linked to my new domain.

Initially, I published content under my SiteRubix domain before purchasing my actual domain name.

Now, when I check my Site Content, I see that some of my earlier posts are linked to the SiteRubix domain, while my more recent ones are linked to my new domain.

What's the Impact?

The impact of this is that I can't check in Wealthy Affiliate whether my first posts are indexed. Additionally, all the links from draft-886961.siterubix.com are broken, so I can't navigate through those pages. While my website, freedomincomestrategies.com, contains all my posts as expected, the Site Content doesn’t accurately reflect this at the moment.

Here Come Site Support

I contacted Site Support, and they suggested that I make copies of the old posts and republish them under my new domain name.

I had to retrieve each post's content from WordPress because many adjustments I made in WordPress were not reflected in Site Content. After publishing each new copy, I had to delete the old posts from both WordPress and Site Content.

I wish I had known this earlier, as it would have prevented me from having to go through all this work, but I hope this information can help others in a similar situation!

Update

I can confirm that it worked, now I see my real count of indexed pages, I'm seeing 13 instead of 2 🎉

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Site Support is awesome! They have helped me through many a challenge.

Karin

Happy to hear that Karin! This is incredible what we get for our money here at Wealthy Affiliate!

We all live and learn Jonathan!

Happy to hear that SiteSupport had your back (as they have mine on many occasions) and enjoy a wonderful weekend my friend! :-)

Thanks Jessie, have a great weekend too!

You're most welcome my friend and very much appreciated! :-)

What is more important is your .com domain name vs the siterubix. As long as you have the posts there, then the hubs don't matter.

To back them up, you may add articles to your tasks. However, there's the issue: you may republish them again (ending in duplicates), and you do not want that.

I hope this helps.

Abie

I'm good now with the solution given by Site Support. What's showing in Site Content matters to me as I want to have an accurate count of my indexed page.
I'm now having all my pages showing the correct domain name and all is good.

Thanks!

That's fab, Jonathan! Thank you for the clarification.

Abie

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