http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/wordpress-permalink-question Help Center Topic: Wordpress Permalink Question en-US Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:44:58 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q http://www.labnol.org/forums/search.php http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/wordpress-permalink-question#post-1752 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:21:20 +0000 Anonymous 1752@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>A 301 redirect can do the trick. Do a 301 redirect to the new URL structure from the previous URL. Therefore your search engine traffic will land on the old URL and get redirected to the new structure smoothly.</p> <p>Use ONLY 301 as this is recommended by Google and any other simple redirects wont get the new URLs indexed. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/wordpress-permalink-question#post-1674 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:37:40 +0000 Anurag 1674@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>All blog posts written in WordPress can be accessed via several different permalinks. But the good point about WP 2.5 is that all these permalinks automatically get redirected to the main permalink that you have setup in the configuration. </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/wordpress-permalink-question#post-1668 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:10:45 +0000 Anonymous 1668@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>I found the answer:<br /> <a href="http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/" rel="nofollow">http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/</a></p> <p>I already migrated with this plugin, it is good ans reliable.</p> <p>Thanks for your time.<br /> app2us advisor </p> http://www.labnol.org/forums/topic/wordpress-permalink-question#post-1641 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:19:55 +0000 Anonymous 1641@http://www.labnol.org/forums/ <p>AP,<br /> I started my blog <a href="http://www.app2us.com/blog" rel="nofollow">http://www.app2us.com/blog</a> on wordpress with default options for the permalink.<br /> Example: <a href="http://app2us.com/blog/?p=63" rel="nofollow">http://app2us.com/blog/?p=63</a></p> <p>I read that having descriptive URLs is better for search rankings. I want to change the permalink option to date and name based, like<br /> <a href="http://app2us.com/blog/2008/04/21/sample-post/" rel="nofollow">http://app2us.com/blog/2008/04/21/sample-post/</a> </p> <p>When I try that, the links to my old posts change, but the posts themselves remain available at the old URL, causing 'page not folund'.</p> <p>Even if they changed properly I will lose my existing search rankings and users will hit non-existent pages through Google Cache. </p> <p>What is the best way forward?</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> app2usadvisor </p>