Comments on: Think Twice Before Changing Your Site URL Structure

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:48:10 +0000

@Michael

It’s called “Redirection”: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

By: Carazoo.com India

Carazoo.com India — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:31:50 +0000

Nice article. :-)

By: lee johnson

lee johnson — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:30:35 +0000

HI Ann,
great post. I work as an SEO manager for a large multinational in the UK. I have been doing some £)! redirect testing and I have found this works an absolute dream. thought I would share it with you:

#301 Redirect
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.*$ http://www.domain.com/ [R=301,L]

This stops all PR loss via canonicalization of the index page of a website.

Enjoy.

If you want to see a demo go to http://www.plumbfix.net

By: Michael Kjeldsen

Michael Kjeldsen — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:44:09 +0000

Hi Don M,

can you provide a link to this plug-in?

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:18:22 +0000

The link is edited, sorry…

By: Don M

Don M — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:36:01 +0000

There is a great 301/302 redirect plugin for WordPress which works great. I used it on a 3 yr old blog with 1000+ entries and didn’t lose much in Google at all. The hard part was staying on top of all the redirect notifications at first, but having a GUI to modify all that stuff really was a godsend.

Thanks for the article.

By: Julio

Julio — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:31:10 +0000

You make a mistake in your post. Both “treating multiple “extra” URLs” and “not-really-friendly discussion at Sphinn?” link the same website.

Can I give my opinion, I think blocking with robots.txt isn’t a good solution. Because you have a lot of errors in webmaster tool. I’m extremely sure that it has some penalties.

Thanks for your article.