Thanks for reaching out. From the inspections I performed on your site all looks fine. The first link you referenced isn’t a valid link, it resolves to a correct link, a link which does have a valid AMP version.
Ie. The link you provided is below:
https://www.freelancerfinancials.co.uk/transparency-mortgage-lenders-no-brainer/amp/
This will resolve to a correct link with the blog path.
https://www.freelancerfinancials.co.uk/blog/mortgages/transparency-mortgage-lenders-no-brainer
If you check the AMP version of that correct link it loads fine without any redirection. If checking the amphref link for any of those posts with AMP versions they also look fine.
Let me know if you have any further questions on this and I’d be happy to help.
The problem is the messy approach it is taking… https://www.dropbox.com/s/q68xxpgeie1r4tw/opera_tuqAWbR7uR.png?dl=0
I need top disable this feature, I want it to just 404 – its not a valid URL as you said and as i said originally!!
I have disabled wordpress itself from auto redirecting, but amp seems to continue and im looking to know how to stop it trying to redirect.
thanks
Hi Dean,
If an AMP URL isn’t available it will always revert to the non AMP version when in transitional mode, as opposed to users landing on a 404 page. The issue you were encountering was not AMP related, the links were didn’t include the full path as defined in your permalinks.
If you’re receiving visits to non existing AMP URLs from search engines you can request a recrawl of your site although these will be eventually corrected once your site is re-indexed. For Google search you can submit your sitemap once more or use the URL inspection tool.
If you have manually added links to your non existing AMP URLs elsewhere you’ll need assign redirects to those non existing AMP URLs.
and i understand that… the problem with these links is a spammer is attacking our site with a ton of bad links such as this, causing redirect chains.
my clients seo consultant wants these redirect chains gone.
Isnt there any way i can stop amp from doing this and just redirecting once to a 404, or to the homepage or something.
redirect chains are ugly and bad for SEO so a solution is vital.
@deano1987 Checking in here – were you able to review @westonruter’s reply? Is there anything else we can help with here? Thanks!
@deano1987 As we haven’t received a response, I’ll mark this as resolved. Feel free to open a new support topic if you continue to encounter issues, or reopen this topic and we’d be happy to assist. Thank you!
