Permalink Migration Plugins To Permenantly Moved Ugly Permalinks Into Pretty Url
If you don’t like your current permalinks (permanent link) structure or consider it ugly permalinks. But you’re left without a choices to change it, because you don’t want your pages become 404 pages if you change them into more cute permalinks. No problem because there are number of plugins that could safely change your ugly permalink structure into prety permalinks without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.
These plugins will tell search engines and also browsers that the old/ugly permalink permanently, like this:
http://www.blogname.com/?p=123
Into pretty permalink like this:
http://www.blogname.com/post-title (/%postname%/)
or
http://www.blogname.com/category-name/post-title ( /%category%/%postname%/)
Is changed into new permalink structure.
Therefore the old addresses should be changed by the new ones. People use to call this activity a “301 Redirect” or “Permanent Redirect”. By doing this Search engines will immediately update their indexing process and as a result you’re not going to lose pagerank and your traffic will stand still as if nothing ever happened. This also works for Search engines, browser, links from other sites and bookmarks.
And here are 3 Permalink migration or Redirect plugins I recommend:
1. Permalinks Migration Plugin
2. Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin
3. Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin
Thus from now on you shouldn’t be affraid of losing your traffic, ranking and your page detected as 404 pages by Search engines and browsers if changing your current permalink structure to the new structures.
And this post is a promise I made in previous post about removing the word category in Wordpress category url.
Good day and see you in the next post.
Category: Wordpress Plugin
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thanks for your tips. its very useful to me. ^^
congrats to our contestant in busby contest.
I actually used Dean’s Permalinks Migration on two of my blogs and it worked just as it was supposed to, no problems whatsoever.
@Warnadunia, you welcome my friend and thanks
@Sire, good choice! Dean’s PM is the best one I think because it’s so easy to use just install – active -change the permalink structure and it’s done!
I wonder if there are tools like this also that can be used for non-blogs. I have a ColdFusion based site which I want to migrate to Wordpress or Drupal. But my worry is the urls those 8 year old web pages have been associated with.
Yep, I had to use it on my first two blogs as I didn’t realize the standard permalink selection was so poor SEO wise and I was wrapped when I found the plugin.
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I’m trying to change my permalink but I need some way to be able to choose which category will be used for each post…
I used scategory for that, but as soon as I change permalink my pages start returning 404!
Do you know a more stable plugin that does this trick?
Janette Toral, as far as I know there’s no such tool to migrate content from Coldfusion to both WP or Drupal.
Sire, yes the default permalink set by WP ain’t passed SEO Wise rules.
Hikari, it’s probably because you set children category within your parent category which caused the pages detected as 404 by your browser, and I have not known about other plugin that could solve your problem other than this.
nice info, thanks banget informasinya
[...] if your current permalink structure is none as the above permalink. To resolve this you need a Permalink migration plugins. Go to this post because I’ve listed number of migration permalink plugins. Just wait:D. See [...]
[...] if your current permalink structure is none as the above permalink. To resolve this you need a Permalink migration plugins. Go to this post because I’ve listed number of migration permalink plugins. Just wait:D. See [...]
That is exactly what I was looking for and immediately I made that change in my blog….
It is working GREAT!!
Thanks mate!
Ron
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When i migrated from blogspot to Wordpress I wanted to give /%postname%.html permalink and thanks to almighty Dean permalink migration plugin that resolve the issue..