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So yesterday I decided to rename the title and URL of my first blog post a few hours after publishing it. I targeted a similar keyword and kept the majority of the content, twea
If it's been ranked well on Google, you don't want to do that. If it's the opposite, then, yes, you can do that. Read more about it here: Is it a bad idea to go back and change the titles of some of my older articles?
It is fine if you do this, I will sometimes edit it in the first couple of days . When it becomes a problem if you start messing around with your titles/URL's after your website has already been ranked in Google (and ranked well). That can have an adverse impact.
So editing it is fine, but don't edit your titles if you are on the 1st page of the results as it could potentially bounce out.
Do a 301 redirect to the new URL
Plugin: Simple 301 redirect
very easy to use
Otherwise you would have to remove POST & cache in Google Webmaster and delete the URL in Bing.
If you do NOT either one of these 2 options, the search engines have a cache of your old post and then you would have 'duplicate' content. That's the reason why Kyle advises NOT to change Title and URL
John
Thanks for the reply :)
I'm more concerned with the google indexing. How will that be affected?
I'm not sure if it will affect it or not. You would probably be better off not worrying about it and focusing your efforts on creating more content.
My thoughts, too. It's too easy to get caught up in the small stuff.
Still, it would be good to know if anyone has any info. Thanks for your wisdom :o)
If someone has linked to that URL and you changed that URL then any links pointed to the URL of the old post will be broken. Not too important for a new post, but if you had a post that had been reposted and linked to from all over the web, you would lose all those links and traffic. In cases where you change the URL, it's best to redirect the old URL to the new URL.
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I renamed a post title & url after publishing. implications?
So yesterday I decided to rename the title and URL of my first blog post a few hours after publishing it. I targeted a similar keyword and kept the majority of the content, twea
If it's been ranked well on Google, you don't want to do that. If it's the opposite, then, yes, you can do that. Read more about it here: Is it a bad idea to go back and change the titles of some of my older articles?
It is fine if you do this, I will sometimes edit it in the first couple of days . When it becomes a problem if you start messing around with your titles/URL's after your website has already been ranked in Google (and ranked well). That can have an adverse impact.
So editing it is fine, but don't edit your titles if you are on the 1st page of the results as it could potentially bounce out.
Do a 301 redirect to the new URL
Plugin: Simple 301 redirect
very easy to use
Otherwise you would have to remove POST & cache in Google Webmaster and delete the URL in Bing.
If you do NOT either one of these 2 options, the search engines have a cache of your old post and then you would have 'duplicate' content. That's the reason why Kyle advises NOT to change Title and URL
John
Thanks for the reply :)
I'm more concerned with the google indexing. How will that be affected?
I'm not sure if it will affect it or not. You would probably be better off not worrying about it and focusing your efforts on creating more content.
My thoughts, too. It's too easy to get caught up in the small stuff.
Still, it would be good to know if anyone has any info. Thanks for your wisdom :o)
If someone has linked to that URL and you changed that URL then any links pointed to the URL of the old post will be broken. Not too important for a new post, but if you had a post that had been reposted and linked to from all over the web, you would lose all those links and traffic. In cases where you change the URL, it's best to redirect the old URL to the new URL.
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I wouldn't know if I was well ranked in search engines or not, I don't know how to check
You can use Jaaxy to search what position (pages/posts) you're on Google.