Changed Blog Name - Duplicate Title Tags - Wordpress

[Joshlaska]

Hi friends,

I changed my blog name url from "german-shepherd-blog" to "dog-blog."

Now I am getting a large amount of duplicate title tags.

How do I tell google I made the change? Is there something on my site I need to change?

[AndieF]

Hi Joshua,

Assuming that both of the pages are the same in all but name the correct practice would be to create what's called a 301 redirect from "german-shepherd-blog" to "dog-blog".

I believe Wordpress handles this for you when you rename a post. However if you're talking about moving your entire blog on a subdirectory, you may need to write a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file.

Once you've implemented a 301 redirect you're basically telling Google, "Hey, remember german-sherpherd-blog, it's still around but now it lives at dog-blog - could you update that for me please?".

It might take a while for them to get to that, and while they do there may be duplication in your search results but if your 301 redirects have been setup properly they'll both lead to the same destination.

[Joshlaska]

Thanks, Andie!