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DR stuck at 2 after 2+ year old domain, Vite meta issues and Google still showing 10k+ old 404 URLs

Hey everyone, I’ve been struggling with SEO and could really use some advice.

My domain is 2 plus years old, but my DR is still a 2. My goal is to get it into the 20 to 40 range.

Previously I had about 180k property pages submitted to Google and roughly 100k of them were indexed.

I migrated to a new platform and changed my URL format, so the old URLs are no longer valid. I created a new sitemap, started returning a 410 for the old pages, and I also submitted removal requests in Google Search Console more than 4 months ago.

The part that’s driving me crazy is Search Console still surfacing the old URLs. I’m seeing 10k plus pages showing “Not found 404” under failed indexing, even though those URLs were intentionally retired and this is months after I submitted removals and pushed the fixes. I also tried redirecting some of them to the home page, but the reports still look messy.

On the new URLs, I’ve submitted around 170k pages and only about 50k are indexed so far.

The second issue is my site is built with Vite. By default it doesn’t server render titles and meta descriptions. Google seems to figure it out, but Ahrefs doesn’t, so it flags around 150k pages as duplicate titles and descriptions. That tanks my Ahrefs audit score and probably isn’t helping my DR. I thought about pre rendering to fix it, but pre rendering 150k+ URLs with a paid service seems like it would get expensive fast.

What would you recommend?

  1. How do I properly clean up the old URL situation so Search Console stops reporting them as 404 or failed indexing, especially if the pages are intentionally gone?

  2. What’s the best way to get unique titles and meta descriptions at scale on a Vite site without spending a fortune on pre rendering?

Any real world advice would be appreciated.

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