Moving from wordpress.com with bad permalinks

  • Resolved arunr78

    (@arunr78)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I had a blog with wordpress.com and recently moved to wordpress.org. I purchased the 301 redirect plan from wordpress.com. I had to use the same permalink setting that wordpress.com used (like http://www.example.com/2014/05/13/my-blog-post) on my own web site, since the redirect required the exact same URL structure. If I removed the year, month and day on my new web site, the redirect was not happening correctly. It’s been couple of weeks since I did the redirects and now I see search engine results are showing the new site’s posts, which is good.

    Now, I would like to change the permalinks on my new web-site to be simply like www.example.com/my-blog-post without the date. My question is does the old site’s redirects still matter? Also, on the new site, how do I maintain the SEO value of my posts? Will changing the URL structure hurt the traffic?

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  • Will Schmierer

    (@officialwill)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Always hard to say if/how things will be affected depending on Google and other search engines. If you want to change the permalinks, I’d consider following this tutorial to see if you want to go through the process. I think you’ll want to create redirects if you do change the current permalink structure to another structure. Hope this article helps with what you’re trying to achieve.

    https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/

    Thread Starter arunr78

    (@arunr78)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Dear Will,
    I went through the steps mentioned on that post and it is working like a charm! The posts now have the URLs like www.example.com/my-blog-post and the old URLs on both the old site and the new site are redirecting to this one. Thank you very much!

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