Wordpress New Category URL's

[acs111]

Were just about to redesign our site and put all the blogs over to the new site.

Previously most blogs have been added to the uncategorised section of the blog and I'm now weighing up the benefit of sifting through all the blogs and changing them to relevant categories.

From an SEO perspective would it be better to

1. Leave them in their current category but start afresh with all new blogs by adding them to relevant categories?

2. Work out which blogs should go in which new category and 301 all previous URL's to the new one.

Obviously number one will take a lot more time than number two.

[AESEO]

#2

I'm of the opinion that from a user experience perspective you should have the blogs in their proper categories. If Google continues to move towards the 'don't do SEO to do SEO' pattern, then categorizing old post seems to make sense.

Also a good time to cross link to internal blogs as you are sorting, for a more internal SEO friendly structure.

[sergio_redondo]

Hi,

I think number 2 is the best option. 301 Redirects offer you the possibility to reorder all your blogs without losing relevance given (or gained) by the link juice and also all old URLs will still be useful.

Be patient and find those keywords that can work best for each blog.

Hope to be useful.

Sergio.