Many bloggers got to learn Search Engine Optimization (SEO) long after they’ve started blogging. If that’s the case with you, there is every chance that you’ve posted a good number of articles that you feel would have attracted a huge.

You might have been thinking of how to avoid the 404 broken page error which occurs when you edit your post slug and probably the post is already indexed on Google, which makes it worse if you don’t do the right thing after editing. This post will guide you on what to do.

By the end of this post, you would have learnt about

• What post slug is
• What are stop words
• What 301 permanent redirect means
• How to edit your post slug in WordPress
• How to edit a Post URL of an already published post
• Setting up redirection in WordPress
• How to set up 301 redirection through .htaccess

A Quick remainder on What Post Slug Is

I assume you know something about permalink and how important it is in optimising your post, hence, the reason why you want to edit your post slug.
Post slugs are those words that come after the blog domain in your blog post link
The major reasons why you might need to edit your post slug is because of the “stop words” in your permalink. Stop word makes google crawler ignore your blog post and this is bad as far as SEO is concern. Example of stop words are: an, both, a, the both, by, to…..