Hi Arvow team,
Firstly, I'm really enjoying Arvow. I've recently used it extensively during a major migration of my website from a traditional WordPress blog to a new cornerstone-page architecture.
One issue I've encountered relates to the Backlink Exchange feature.
I've permanently retired a number of old articles by either:
implementing 301 redirects to new canonical pages,
returning HTTP 410 (Gone), or
removing them from my XML sitemap and marking them as noindex where appropriate.
However, Arvow's URL Indexer continues to show many of these retired URLs as indexed. I've clicked Re-crawl, but the index doesn't appear to refresh or remove URLs that are no longer part of the site.
This becomes particularly problematic in the Backlink Exchange, because it's still recommending backlink opportunities for pages that no longer exist and which I intentionally don't want to promote.
It would be incredibly useful if there were a way to:
perform a true fresh crawl that rebuilds the URL inventory from the current site state,
automatically remove URLs that consistently return 301, 404 or 410 responses, or
manually purge obsolete URLs from the URL Indexer.
At the moment, it seems the URL Indexer is retaining historical URLs even after the website has been substantially restructured, which makes the Backlink Exchange much less reliable following a migration.
Is there currently a way to force a complete refresh of the URL Indexer that I'm missing, or would this be something you could consider adding?
Thanks for the great product, and I appreciate any guidance.
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