Changing the spellings of titles and URl changes

[mtthompsons]

Hi,

Changing the spellings of titles and URl changes

We identifies 500+ titles with some issues like spellings and punctuations and short or too long.

We want to change them, but the titles are connected with the URL's when we change the titles the URl's change as well.

My questions are

1. Is it a good way to change them all in one shot or do few daily

2. As the URl's change will Google index drop the old pages as they would be 404 and index new ones?

3. Will we have chances to have drop in traffic due to this?

4. Any way to redirect? as we have a Drupal website

Thanks

[Presencity]

Hi,

you have to do a few things :

1. List all the pages with a "old title" column, "new title" column, "old url" column and "new url" column
2. Prepare server redirects HTTP301 from old url to new ones - This will indicate to the search engines what you have changed
3. Put the redirects online
4. Update all your titles
5. Enjoy !

The change will update the Google index, old urls will be changed to new urls. There will be no 404.

Regards,
Philippe

[Chris.Menke]

You can also rel=canonical to the old URLs to the new URLs.  by adding that directive in the page headers of the affected pages.  Eventually you can either delete those old URLs, or, for the ones that have external links going to them, add 301s to the new pages. Canonicalization and the Canonical Tag - Learn SEO - Moz