Summary

Confirmed the May 8, 2026 Ahrefs Site Audit alert from Gmail: project 9708957, issue 3XX page receives organic traffic: 3 URLs, crawl timestamp 2026-05-08T18:35:58Z. Ahrefs detail API could not return the exact issue rows because the account had 0 API units left for the 50-unit Site Audit detail endpoint, so the session used the alert metadata, Screaming Frog 5.8.26 response_codes_all.csv, live GSC page clicks/impressions for 2026-02-08 through 2026-05-08, and live HTTP checks on 2026-05-10.

Accomplished

Created the working folder traffic_3xx_cleanup_2026-05-10 inside /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Projects/Screaming Frog 5.8.26 with three deliverables:

The shortest recommended fix set is three old URLs that are still live 301s, have real GSC impact, and are non-canonical slug/content redirects rather than harmless trailing-slash redirects:

  1. https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/first-ups-wrongful-death-suits-filed -> https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/ups-wrongful-death-suits-filed/: 31 GSC clicks, 7,544 impressions, 2 source records located.
  2. https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/concussion-symptoms-from-car-accidents-understanding-long-term-medical-risks-and-legal-implications/ -> https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/concussion-symptoms-car-accidents/: 17 GSC clicks, 7,090 impressions, 3 source records located.
  3. https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/about-us/bigger-share-guarantee/ -> https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/about-us/bigger-share-guarantee-kentucky/: 1 GSC click, 2,432 impressions, 89 crawl inlinks, 37 source records located.

Important Findings

High-click no-trailing-slash URLs like /insurance-bad-faith-mistreatment-in-kentucky, /car-accident-injuries/injury-mechanisms, and /mcs90-coverage are one-hop WordPress canonical trailing-slash redirects. They should not be changed to 200 no-slash URLs because that would conflict with the site's canonical URL policy. Best handling is to ensure internal links use the final trailing-slash URLs and request recrawl/indexing of the final URLs.

Two high-impact crawl rows were already cleared live by the time of this session: /about-us/meet-our-team/sam-aguiar/ and /diminished-value-claim-kentucky/ now return 200.

Correction Added 2026-05-11

Sam flagged that https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/about-us/bigger-share-guarantee-kentucky/ is not a desired URL. Live verification confirmed that URL returns 200, while /about-us/bigger-share-guarantee/ returns 301 to the -kentucky slug. Do not publish any prepared replacements pointing internal links to /about-us/bigger-share-guarantee-kentucky/. Treat the likely next fix as restoring the canonical Bigger Share Guarantee slug to /about-us/bigger-share-guarantee/, after revision capture, redirect export, live HTTP verification, and cache purge.

What Was Not Done

No live WordPress content was published. The prepared replacements should go through the WordPress content deployment/autosave QA path with revision capture before publishing. No redirect rules were changed because the existing 301s resolve to 200 destinations and should remain as fallbacks.

Suggested Next Steps

Use concrete_source_replacements.csv as the batch input for a staged WordPress link-replacement pass. Start with Priority A only. Capture current revisions/autosaves, replace the old URLs with the final URLs, verify affected pages, purge Cloudways cache if needed, then request recrawl/indexing for the three final destination URLs. Priority B can be handled later if Sam wants to clear low-volume remnants too.