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Configuring and Applying Remove URL Optimizations

Updated over a year ago

šŸ“˜ This article explains how to configure Remove URL optimizations in PageWorkers. PageWorkers is part of Botify's Activation Suite, available as an option with all Botify plans.

Overview

The configuration step in the PageWorkers wizard interface differs based on the type of optimization you are creating. This article explains how to configure Remove URL optimizations, which allow you to clean up your site by having PageWorkers remove pages you no longer need and focus on more strategic pages.

The Remove URL type of optimization performs the following for all <a> and <link> elements:

  • Remove the element entirely if it is a canonical or a hreflang

  • Remove the "href" attribute of the link

Configuring Remove URL Optimizations

To configure Remove URL optimizations:

  1. Follow the instructions to create a PageWorkers optimization.

  2. On the Configure page, select a method for identifying URLs to remove:

    • Crawled URLs: Find URLs from your most recent Botify crawl.

    • CSV File: Upload URLs in bulk.

    • URL rules: Define rules to match URLs. When you select this option, identify conditions to match in the ā€œDefine your patternā€ section below (e.g., URL contains /product). Click the Add a condition link to identify multiple conditions to match.

    • Specific URLs: Identify individual URLs for each page to be optimized on the next wizard step.

  3. Choose whether PageWorkers should add a noindex tag to the pages when the URLs are requested.

  4. Click the Next button. If you chose the "Specific URLs" option in Step 2, you will advance to the Apply step. The other options advance you to the Deploy step.

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Identifying URLs by CSV

To identify the URLs to be replaced in bulk:

  1. Select the CSV File option.

  2. Click the CSV template link to download the template for the selected optimization type.

  3. Add the URLs and values to the template, one source and destination URL pair per row, and then save the file in CSV format.

  4. Click the Upload CSV File button, select your created file, and then click Open.

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Applying Remove URL Optimizations

When you choose to identify URLs to remove manually, the Apply step is displayed after the configuration step.

To apply Remove URL optimizations:

  1. In the URLs field, type or copy and paste a list for each URL to be removed, using your keyboard's Return/Enter key to list one URL per line. The total number of URLs to be removed is identified below the field.

  2. Click Next to proceed to the Deploy step.

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Read next:

Creating PageWorkers Optimizations

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