Changing URL of posts

[tourtravel]

HI,

I need to change the urls and permalink structure of my blogposts.

How I have to deal all this with google? Do I have to re-submit the pages to google with fetch as google?

Will google display duplicate content of the same article ( having changed the url) or will it automatically replace the old url with the new ones?

Tx for your support guys!

[DragonSearch]

Hi there!

You will need to implement 301 redirects to the new URLs that you are creating. This tells the search engines that the blog post is being permanently redirected to your new URLs. If 301 redirects are not implemented two things can happen:

1. If you kill the old page you will have a whole mess of 404 errors and the authority they old pages built up would be lost and not transferred to the new domains.

2. If you simply create copies of the blog post and do not redirect you will have a lot of duplicate content issues to deal with.

I hope this helps! ^Caitlin

[GPainter]

Hi there,

It also depends on your software if your using word press you can change urls and it would change overtime.

If its different DragonSearch gave some excellent advice to 301 to a new URL. You would not need to tell Google or do Fetch as Google as when it next crawls it would detect the change. If you want to speed up the process you can post the new url into say Google plus etc.

Good luck!

[tourtravel]

I have wordpress, so I dont need to anything aprat changing the url? google will reflect the changes without dealing with 301 redirects?

[tourtravel]

tx, how can I "implement 301 redirects to the new URLs that i am creating" ?

is it an option i can deal with YOAST?

[GPainter]

Go to settings > Permalink > Select what you want.

WordPress will do all the hard work for you and Google will re-crawl your site (this can take time depending on the popularity of your site).

Hope that helps

[GPainter]

If your planning on creating new pages (not renaming old) this plugin will help -

https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-301-redirects/

[tourtravel]

OK tx so much.

Also, what happens to the old url i posted on facebook or on the web? do they weill be automatically redirected to the new urls?

[GPainter]

Yes wordpress should do that, it wouldn't hurt to update the urls if you can though

[tourtravel]

OK tx so much!