How I fixed my biggest mistake at WA Training - Changing permalinks
Published on October 19, 2015
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Hi guys,
In my last blog, My Biggest Mistake at WA Training, I made the mistake of changing the permalinks of my page/post after I published them and as a result, my traffic went downhill while my bounce rate went up. After investigating, I found out that I had many broken links because of the changes I made in 2 of my page permalinks.
If you want to change your permalinks, make sure that you do it before you publish your post/page but if you want to change it after you must do it the right way by using a redirection before you change or edit it.
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However, if you had already changed your permalinks before you use a redirection tool, follow the steps below:
1. Check all the links of your website to see which ones are broken.
2. Change the links with the old permalinks and replace it with the new permalinks
3. You also need to fix your 404 errors from your Google Webmaster Tools, there is another training on how to do that, if you do not yet know how to do it, let me know so I can put the training here.
Cheers,
Maria
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