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   IdeatteHede
   Member

   AP,
   I started my blog http://www.app2us.com/blog on wordpress with default options for the permalink.
   Example: http://app2us.com/blog/?p=63

   I read that having descriptive URLs is better for search rankings. I want to change the permalink option to date and name based, like
   http://app2us.com/blog/2008/04/21/sample-post/

   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'.

   Even if they changed properly I will lose my existing search rankings and users will hit non-existent pages through Google Cache.

   What is the best way forward?

   Thanks,
   app2usadvisor

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   IdeatteHede
   Member

   I found the answer:
   http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

   I already migrated with this plugin, it is good ans reliable.

   Thanks for your time.
   app2us advisor

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Anurag
   Member

   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.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   saicharan
   Member

   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.

   Use ONLY 301 as this is recommended by Google and any other simple redirects wont get the new URLs indexed.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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