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If a aged ranked page in Google is something like http://website.com/fun.html
and I change it to http://www.website/fun will this affect the rank or previous juice?
I ask because we are rebuilding a site for a client that has been around for many years
with hundreds of pages with urls like that. Basically its taking of the .html
Also we have a link like http://website.com/books.html I'm assuming
if we change it to http://website.com/services/books.html it will completely
destroy the SEO, am I right?
Ps the new site is a wordpress.
The direct answer is: Yes. Google looks at fun.html and /fun/ as 2 separate pages. To associate the two pages you will need to add a 301 redirect from fun.html to fun either in your WordPress roots .htaccess file or you can install a plugin to take care of it for you.
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Rank Math SEO plug-in that we're using has an option to enter Post ID for the pages that need to be excluded from the sitemap.xml. But it doesn't seem to be working.
Is there a standard way to do it?
If your link is in the sitemap.xml and you want to remove the link, please do and check the following steps.
Make sure the sitemap.xml is not cached if you are using any cache plugin, check these steps
for excluding the post or page from the Rank Math plugin please follow this document
Also, as I recommended please set the page as no follow, no index by doing these simple steps
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I created a Wordpress site and I want to replace every occurrence of the word Wordpress example:
Wordpress => MySite
Is there any plugin to do what I want or any function that should I create?Or should I replace all the words manually?
There's a Wordpress Search and Replace Tool that will do what you need.
If you download a PHP script from the link, place it in the root of your site and then navigate to it will find and replace any term in the site database and / or files.
Obviously make sure you remove after you're done and it's better to rename it something less obvious before you upload it.
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It is a simple scenario. The client wanted a remake of an old site and we chose WordPress. Besides visual redesign there were changes in content structure and naturally links. The problem is that the old content is pretty highly ranked on Google, so the questions is actually two fold.
Will switching to new site affect the ranking?
How to preserve links that are already there on Google to point to the same content but to different URL's on the new site?
Switching will affect your Google rankings. The ranking is tied to the address of a page, so when you move it to a new address, you loose the ranking you've built up. However, if you use 301 redirects from the old content to the new, you will preserve your Google rankings. This tells the search engine that your content that was in page A is now in page B. Think "change of address" cards for the Internet. It works for search engines as well as users in browsers.
Here's a good article on the subject: http://www.bruceclay.com/blog/2007/03/how-to-properly-implement-a-301-redirect/
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I currently have a blog at blogger.com with a custom domain name. I have decided to manage my own blog using wordpress to be able to fully take advantage of all the cool wordpress plugins. Note that I am moving my domain as well. I won't be purchasing a new one.
I experimented a bit and found out that I can replicate the blogger URLs on my old blog and use the same on my new wordpress blog. For example, a Blogger URL for an article would look something like mydomain.com/this-is-my-title.htm. Wordpress url can also be manipulated to look exactly like that.
But still, as a precaution, I want to know if this move can still affect my ranking on search engines (not that there's much to speak of) in a negative way.
Noob with SEO stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
If you do complete replication of all URLs it should not be affected at all. For the URL's that you can't mimic but you know they are indexed - set up your server to fall back to the main page of your blog.
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I have created a site twoo years ago in php and now converting it into asp.net mvc. Now I would like to get all indexed pages by Google so I can validate all these are working with new site.
I search on google using "site:mysite.com" it shows 21000 results, So how Can i get these 21000 results and validate all they are working with new.
I don't know if there is a tool that gives you a list. However one way I can think of is to keep an eye on your Google WebMasters account for errors. Any page that Google can't reach will be a page you need to look at and fix. This isn't a fast solution but it's a reliable one.
If your previous website has a structure to its urls then it should be easy to replicate that using routes in asp.Net.
I think this topic has to be moved to webmasters section of stackexchange.
Generally what people would do with change of url is to give 301 redirect to all the new pages from old pages (aka url rewriting).
To verify if all your links work, you can use a tool called Xenu. Being a webmaster, you might already known this. It just goes through the entire list of urls in the pages and verifies them. But in your case you want to check if all your old php links work, you can possibly get a sitemap of the existing list and do the checking by putting this sitemap page on the new site.