URL FORMATTING ISSUE - SPACES IN URL - URGENT HELP NEEDED!!

Topic summary

Product pages are reporting 404s in Ahrefs; the broken URLs seem to mirror the H1 titles, and spaces in URLs are suspected.

Key insights:

  • Shopify does not allow spaces in product/collection handles (slugs), so the issue is unlikely in the core handle values.
  • Spaces are allowed in URL redirects, which could be generating malformed paths that Ahrefs is picking up.

Suggested actions:

  • Audit handles/slugs in bulk with Matrixify (export Products and Collections), then update any incorrect ones if found.
  • Check Online Store → Navigation → View URL Redirects for redirects containing spaces or incorrect paths; correct or remove them.
  • In Shopify Admin, verify each product’s URL handle (slug) and adjust if necessary.
  • Inspect page code for any custom logic that might build links from H1 titles rather than handles.

Notes:

  • “Handle/slug” = the URL-friendly identifier for a product/collection.
  • “Redirects” = rules that forward one URL path to another.

Status: No confirmed fix yet; guidance provided and further investigation (especially redirects) recommended. A screenshot was shared but is not essential to the steps above.

Summarized with AI on December 13. AI used: gpt-5.

You could use Matrixify to export all URLs slugs and check them. Yes looks u got spaces in URLs, but on the product URL page in backend Shopify you should be able to change the URL slug.