How to change your permalink structure and not kill your page rank

27. Mar, 2009 0 Comments

I‘ve done a post before where I talked about creating SEO friendly URLs with Wordpress but this is something a bit different. For some people that have quite a few posts already with their Wordpress blog it’s tough to just completely change your URL structure. Even with 20-30 posts you easily have most of those already indexed with the search engines so from an SEO standpoint you need to setup a 301 redirect.

URL redirection, also called URL forwarding, domain redirection and domain forwarding, is a technique on the World Wide Web for making a web page available under many URLs.

Well for anyone in this situation there is a plugin available for Wordpress that can help you fix this problem in 3.8 seconds

With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.

Enough with the talking already and on with the downloading!

DOWNLOAD: Dean’s Permalink Migration for Wordpress

Installation

unzip and upload the file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate it on your Admin Panel->Plugin Management page.

Usage

goto admin panel->options->PermalinksMigration.set the old permanlink structure of your site.
goto admin panel->options->Permalinks.change the new permalink structure to what you want. (personally I recommend /%category%/%postname%/)
Done,enjoy it.

A big thanks to Dean Lee for his awesome contribution to the Wordpress community!