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2 Plugins to Migrate WordPress Permalinks Structure

By default, WordPress give us the dynamic URL for the post in this format: http://www.domain.com/?p=post-id-number. But to optimize for SEO, many people have used:

http://www.domain.com/post-title or

http://www.domain.com/category/post-title or

http://www.domain.com/archives/post-title or some other structures.

With above permalinks structures, it allows you to have more keywords loaded to the URL of your posts. And on the SEO look, this URL has advantage over the dynamic URL that so many bloggers have used customs structure for their blog.

Nothing to say if your blog has nothing changed or it will stay the same for lifetime. But what happens if you must change the permalinks structure of your blog? This will make all pages and post indexed by Search Engines become invalid. Moreover you will lose all the readers to your old URL from Search Engines, referral links or bookmarks.

But don’t worry, with following WordPress plugins: Dean’s Permalinks Migration and Advanced Permalinks, you can safety change or migrate your blog permalinks structure without affect any existing posts and without losing any page rank.

1. Advanced Permalinks Plugin

This plugin provides many advanced options allow you to:

• Have multiple permalink structures. Permalinks can be assigned to posts or ranges of posts
• 301 redirect old permalink structures (many structures are allowed)
• Category-specific permalinks. Posts in certain categories can be assigned a permalink structure
• No need to have a base to the category permalink!
• Change author permalinks
• Enable periods in permalinks – perfect for migrating old websites

All permalinks are real permalinks and do not result in 301 redirections. Any attempts to access posts in the wrong permalink structure will be automatically redirected to the correct URL. Advanced Permalinks is available in: English and Bulgarian

Author: Alexander Dichev

Download: Advanced Permalinks Plugin

2. Dean’s Permalinks Migrations Plugin

With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website,and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.

By now, you know how can you change your permalinks without losing the traffic you’re already getting. You can download this Permalink Migration Plugin to achieve this for you.

This plugin will generates a “301 Redirect” when user or spider visit your site through old permalinks,and redirect them to the new permalinks of the same post.

Do not fear to change your permalink structure now, you would never lose any visitors due to changed addresses.

Author: Dean Lee

Download: Dean’s Permalinks Migration Plugin

Thanks to Alexander Dichey and Dean Lee for your great job. Keep up your job and good luck to you!