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Hi all,

I've noticed in Google Search Console under 'Crawl errors' -

1. Why does the status code '410' come up as an 'error' in the crawl report?

2. Why are some articles labelled as '404' error when they have been completely deleted and should be a '410' - there are roughly around 1000-2000 of these.

Thanks!

Great feedback, guys. Thank you.

The articles are mostly news related so there's not a whole lot of reason to keep them, however we tend to have people dig fairly deep into topics such as cars or watches. This content tends to be timeless.

REASON FOR THE INITIAL QUESTION

We have however also seemed to hit a wall with organic traffic. We did think this was perhaps because of having too many articles on the site but we're not too sure.

We get 10k organic referrals per day, everyday. It fluctuates maybe +-100 but it's like it's we're stuck at a ceiling.... hence the reason we're looking at changing link structure to maybe help move this imaginary log jam.

Some of our in-house practices
Old evergreen articles are always being update
URLs updated so date stamp is more recent - then 301 redirect put in place 
Major newspapers and high authority websites regularly linking to use for 'expert advice'

We seem to be doing everything by the book but something's stopping our growth.... maybe changing all the URLs and the structure may not help.

Morning everyone,

I'm the tech at a large men's lifestyle publisher and we're currently running the old /year/month/ URL structure in Wordpress.

Now I've read countless articles about pro's and con's of month date vs post type formats (/2016/06/sample-post/ vs /sample-post/) and considering we produce both evergreen and daily news content we're stuck with making a decision.

Currently we receive about 10,000 organic referrals per day (has been stuck at this for 12 months) but considering we have 7,500 articles, have 10 full-time staff and have been around for close to 7 years we think we're underperforming.

Now providing we 301 redirect every old article to the new structure is there any other reason not to do this change?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Axps36D