Blog post url structure changed- many visitors to old, non-existing page.

dinneenp

Hi,

I have a blog post on my website that the url has changed.
It used to be
http://www.photoblog.ie/2012/07/31/love-me-tender/

But I changed the pemralinks design so now it's http://www.photoblog.ie/love-me-tender/

I still get a lot of hits to the first url which doesn't exist. I tried to create a new post with that url but Wordpress removes the '/'
Anyone able to tell me if there's anything I can do, besides changing the permalink structure back to the old one?
the only option I can think of is to find the sources of the traffic and try to update the url. But some of the sources are in forums so I can't edit the posts.

Thanks,
Patrick.

Kenny Logins

Have you set up Google Webmaster Tools? That'll list all of the broken links for you. You can redirect them manually through the .htaccess file ( http://www.htaccessredirect.net/ ) on your server or with a Wordpress plugin.

mneylon

If you're using Wordpress this plugin can help:
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

smash

Set up some 301's in your htaccess file

http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/242/How+do+I+redirect+my+site+using+a+.htaccess+file%3F

dinneenp

Blacknight wrote: »

If you're using Wordpress this plugin can help:
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/

Thanks; worked a treat!