Hi,
I built a new wordpress website for one of my client but some old URL are still showing in google. Those URL doesn't return a 404, they actually redirect to the good pages. I explain :
The website is www.vetreseau.com. One of the page is www.vetreseau.com/veterinaire/. The old website page was www.vetreseau.com/site/veterinaire. I've removed the subfolder because it was useless. But if I try to access www.vetreseau.com/site/veterinaire, it will actually redirect to the good page, www.vetreseau.com/veterinaire/. I realized that, within wordpress, anything you type as subdirectories, if it doesn't exist, wordpress will remove it and try the page without the subdirectory. So when I try www.vetreseau.com/asdgasdadg/veterinaire/, it works, because it redirect to www.vetreseau.com/veterinaire/. But my problem is that google thinks that my old pages are still active because they are redirecting to the good page and not a 404 error page, and even if they are redirected, they are not sending a 301.
Can I remove that kind of weird wordpress redirect subdirectory feature?
Can I say to Google with my htaccess, yes this page leads somewhere, but the new URL is blablabla... so it will eventually update in search engines ?
Sorry for my english, this is not my first language.
Thank you for you help!