Current status

Batch 5 hygiene note, 2026-05-17: Active source of truth for the Amazon legacy page audit. This remains Needs Follow-up because the malformed nested 404 and any legacy consolidation decisions require GSC/backlink evidence or a confirmed redirect write path. Indexed in the SAIL Knowledge Base Hygiene Hub - 2026-05-12.

Outcome

Approved follow-up 4A was executed as a separate Amazon duplicate/legacy audit.

• New Amazon spoke remains live and self-canonical at https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/practice-areas/delivery-vehicle-accidents/amazon-delivery-accidents/.
• Substantial legacy Amazon pages were not redirected or canonicalized because they still return 200, self-canonicalize, and have distinct IDs/titles/H1s/content. Redirecting them without GSC/backlink evidence is below the safe confidence threshold.
• Live safe cleanup was completed on WordPress post 13026: seven stale internal links were updated from old /amazon-delivery-vehicle-accidents/{spoke}/ paths to current /practice-areas/delivery-vehicle-accidents/{spoke}/ paths.

Verification

• Internal link check after cleanup: 38 links checked, 0 broken/404, 0 redirecting.
• Playwright after cleanup: 9 primary URLs checked, 8 rendered as 200. Only non-200 is the malformed nested legacy URL.
• Delivery cluster old-link scan: 11 hub/spoke pages checked, no old Amazon URL patterns found.
• Restore helper dry-run succeeded and did not touch WordPress.

Remaining Decision

The malformed nested URL still returns 404: https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/practice-areas/delivery-vehicle-accidents/practice-areas/amazon-delivery-vehicle-accident-lawyers/.

It was not found as a live internal link, but a narrow 301 to the current Amazon spoke is reasonable after confirming the correct RankMath/WP-CLI arbitrary source-path write path. The available RankMath REST route exposed in this run is object-level only.

Artifacts

• C:\Users\SAguiar\Documents\Codex\seo-amazon-legacy-audit-2026-05-15_084548\AMAZON_LEGACY_AUDIT.md
• C:\Users\SAguiar\Documents\Codex\seo-amazon-legacy-audit-2026-05-15_084548\ROLLBACK_AND_RESTORE.md
• C:\Users\SAguiar\Documents\Codex\seo-amazon-legacy-audit-2026-05-15_084548\amazon_legacy_audit.json
• C:\Users\SAguiar\Documents\Codex\seo-amazon-legacy-audit-2026-05-15_084548\legacy_internal_link_status.json