{"id":424,"date":"2007-02-28T03:49:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T19:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/change-wordpress-permalinks-without-affecting-search-index\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:13:05","slug":"change-wordpress-permalinks-without-affecting-search-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/change-wordpress-permalinks-without-affecting-search-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Change WordPress Permalinks without affecting Google Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You want to remove a particular <strong>prefix<\/strong> (Dates, for example) in the URL on all your permalinks, but you can\u2019t bear the cost as your entries are either indexed by Google, hyperlink-ed by bloggers or bookmarked by other websites.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>(a) http:\/\/www.domain.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/11\/name-of-your-entry\/ (long URL)<\/li>\n<li>(b) http:\/\/www.domain.com\/blog\/name-of-your-entry\/ (short URL)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p>Deanlee provides a WordPress Plugin replace your (a) with (b) and will not have any side effects, no loss of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to tell the search engines (and browsers) that the page has permanently moved, and that the old address should be replaced by the new one. It\u2019s called a \"301 Redirect\", also known as a Permanent Redirect. When you do this, Search engines will update their indexes quickly, and you won\u2019t lose your pagerank.you will continue to receive traffic as though nothing had changed. This works for search engines, bookmarks, and links from other sites.<\/p>\n<h2>Implementation<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/advanced-permalinks\/\">Permalinks Migration plugin<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Upload to \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/li>\n<li>(Admin Panel) Activate the plugin<\/li>\n<li>(Admin Panel) Go <strong>Options<\/strong> &gt; <strong>PermalinksMigration<\/strong>. Set your <i>old<\/i> permalinks structure<\/li>\n<li>(Admin Panel) Go <strong>Options<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Permalinks<\/strong>. Set your <i>new<\/i> permalinks structure<\/li>\n<li>(Admin Panel) Go <strong>Options<\/strong> &gt; <strong>Permalinks<\/strong>. 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