Posted 4 years ago #
Is there any downside to converting an established site from the standard URL naming convention mysite.com/?p=64 to mysite.com/seoed-page-url-name/
Should one 301 redirect all the old URlS? Is there a plug-in created to accomplish this already?
Thanks for your feedback!
The default "ugly" permalinks always work - no matter what kind of human-readable "nice" permalink you set up. The nice permalinks are more human-friendly than seo friendly, at least according to some wise people around here.
Posted 4 years ago #
I beg to differ. Having keywords in your url is huge for SEO.
My question was from a technical standpoint, if you change links will both the /?p=64 work as well as the new permalink?
Posted 4 years ago #
You are going to take an initial hit from google, but WordPress (after 2.1?) should automatically redirect the old urls to the new ones.
You can actually append ?p=xxx to any WordPress website and jump to the "real" url to that post.
Posted 4 years ago #
Should one 301 redirect all the old URlS? Is there a plug-in created to accomplish this already?
You could, and yes there is a plugin. Actually there are a few others, but I can't seem to find them. I know Matt had one he made, too.
EDIT: Found it! And Matt's, too, but looks like that's just for no-www.
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