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Hi Michael,

Was really hoping, a new YOAST support specialist would take the effort to look properly in my message & images.

Wrote in the last message, that I have a new website, so the URL CAN BE ANYTHING, also a SUB-categorie. I added an image where you can see the ‘1 or 3 sims active’ is now a SUB-category. As I wrote in the previous message it still not working.

Your colleague Maybellyne tested it with subcategories and stated that it works very fine.

I also inquired for some clarifications, I numbered those. Please clarify as well why you refer to the product permalinks /product/%product_cat%/

I provided the necessary information & images. Can you explain what I’m not doing correct with the subcategory and/or permalinks? Thank you.

same image permalinks:

https://snipboard.io/S2eIBa.jpg

https://snipboard.io/s28BD5.jpg

image subcategory:

As I’m still flexible in the new website, I made the primary category into a primary subcategory, as you state it should be working fine then. Still it does not reflect in in the product’s permalink, see the attachment.

As some of your previous comments were not clear to me, I asked some questions in my former message. Maybe in some of those unanswered questions lies the solution?:

1A What do you mean with “you will need to make sure you have ‘category’ as part of the permalink”?

1B I attached an image of my current permalinks, could you check if something is wrong there?

1C In my previous image you can see that the (permalink) word ‘product’ is part of the product-url and not ‘category’. If I “make sure you have category as part of the permalink”, wouldn’t that be confusing for SEO/Google as the URL is not a category-URL, but a product-URL? So Why would I add the word ‘category’ in a product-URL?

1D The category-URL would be https://www. .com/product-category/2-or-3-sims-active. And in here would be showing all the products that have 2 or 3 sims active. Here it seems to be SEO/google wise to add the word ‘category’ to the category-URL.

2 What do you mean with “you need to manually change the permalink for every product you change its category”.

https://snipboard.io/S2eIBa.jpg

Thanks for clarifying how the Yoast SEO primary category works. For some reason it is not working this way with my products ??

Could you clarify some actions you mentioned?:

1A What do you mean with “you will need to make sure you have ‘category’ as part of the permalink”?

1B I attached an image of my current permalinks, could you check if something is wrong there?

1C In my previous image you can see that the (permalink) word ‘product’ is part of the product-url and not ‘category’. If I “make sure you have category as part of the permalink”, wouldn’t that be confusing for SEO/Google as the URL is not a category-URL, but a product-URL? So Why would I add the word ‘category’ in a product-URL?

1D The category-URL would be https://www. .com/product-category/2-or-3-sims-active. And in here would be showing all the products that have 2 or 3 sims active. Here it seems to be SEO/google wise to add the word ‘category’ to the category-URL.

2 What do you mean with “you need to manually change the permalink for every product you change its category”.

3 Current site is the new website, where the old website will be redirecting to, so I’m still kind of flexible in how to make the URL-structure.

Thanks so much, for following this up!

Yes, correct.

https://snipboard.io/QwVdbo.jpg

https://snipboard.io/QwVdbo.jpg

I can choose the blue “Make Primary”, for all the active categories of a specific product.

Also the specific chosen category – in the category overview – of a product, changes into Primary category, shown with the bold text Primary & the category changes into bold.

Only this does not reflect in a change in the product-URL.

I can’t see here any link or information, how to upload an image ?? How to?

Just to be clear. I’m talking about the product-URL that shows on the productpage and that is shown when the product is shown in the browser.