I've optimized my Wordpress permalink. Does it hurt/help me when it comes to SEO cos all my backlinks are to the old URL?
May 2, 2010 1:45 AM   Subscribe

I've optimized my Wordpress permalink. Does it hurt/help me when it comes to SEO cos all my backlinks are to the old URL?

Based on an SEO tool's advice, I modified my titles to bring primary keywords to the front of the title.

eg. 4 excellent tips for cooking became Cooking tips: 4 Excellent tricks

I also changed my URL permalink to do the same.

from : http://xxx.com/4-execllent-cooking-tips to http://xxx.com/cooking-tips-4-excellent-tricks

I know wordpress's core now supports autoredirection of traffic so all past reference URLs wont be dead, BUT does it hurt/help me when it comes to SEO cos all my backlinks are to the old URL?
posted by friedbeef to Computers & Internet (3 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
It's not ideal, but Redirection Plugin can create redirects for those old links with 301 moved permanently redirects, which should reduce the impact AND ensure that anyone who has linked to your old permalinks won't have their links broken.
posted by disillusioned at 5:48 AM on May 2, 2010


I think that if you change the URL, modern versions of wordpress will redirect old ones automatically. Have you tried it?
posted by adamrice at 7:39 AM on May 2, 2010


Consider adding "canonical url" meta tags -- see http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/canonical/. Read more about it here.

By doing this, you're letting the search engines know there's a "best" link for any particular page in question.
posted by artlung at 11:03 AM on May 2, 2010


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