Moving my site to WordPress – will I loose my incoming links?

  • freeunlocks

    (@freeunlocks)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I have been running my site: http://www.freeunlocks.com with webs.com hosting/sitebuilder and am interested in moving my site to WordPress in order to take advantage of SEO. I have started building my site on WordPress.org hosted on HostGator, and then it came to me that I may loose my incoming links. The current structure of links from my webs.com hosted site is (for a page named “Choose Your Phone”):

    http://www.freeunlocks.com/chooseyourphone.htm

    but when I made a page called “Choose Your Phone” in WordPress admin panel, it says that the permalink will be:

    http://www.freeunlocks.com/choose-your-phone/

    How do I change it to make sure that my incoming links will be directed to the right page in my WordPress site? Is there any plugin that will notice incorrect links and search for the correct one for redirection? Or is there an easier solution?

    Thanks!
    Adam

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    you can end your posts with .htm
    just use custom permalink structure and input
    /%postname%.htm

    also, a good redirect plugin
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

    Gabe Young

    (@gabeyoung)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    I believe using /%postname%.htm still adds hyphens in the permalink.

    What you can do is manually change your existing articles’ permalinks to not include hyphens. If you have too many to do, then it might be easier to reach out to your backlink owners and have them tweak those.

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    I believe using /%postname%.htm still adds hyphens in the permalink.

    oops – that’s true

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 6 months ago

    How many links are we talking about? If it’s not too many, 301 redirects in .htaccess are pretty easy.

    Thread Starter freeunlocks

    (@freeunlocks)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Not sure how many links I have. I will try the redirect plugin, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll add .htm. Is there anyway of getting rid of hyphens?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Only by manually editing the permalinks for the post (under the post title is the pretty URL for it, and you can click on that to edit it).

    Gabe Young

    (@gabeyoung)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Seriously, how many articles do you have? It would only take a few seconds to remove hyphens from each one.

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