Permalinks in wordpress: easy to change?
I’ve gone and pretty much killed my old post as far as links go, at least so far. I decided to change my permalinks to make them even shorter and more direct, dropping the “index.php” and “month” to get the meat of the post in there. Thankfully wordpress does fine updating internal link structure automatically but any inbound links you have out there to any of the old post will become broken.
Supposedly, it’s an easy and there are even a couple plugins to automate the migration (301 redirects for the old post/path). Unfortunately, I seem to be an idiot and can’t figure out how to make them work lol. I tried 3 different plugins and couldn’t seem to get any of my old links to work to redirect to the new post. Which means, if I don’t fix it I lose whatever small amount of incoming links I used to have as soon as google cleans up all the broken links. Besides wanting to save those, I’d like to finally learn how to fix this as it is something that can be used on all sorts of sites and could come in handy for other uses.
Has anyone changed their permalink structure and/or used one of the plugins to help fix their old links and gotten it to work easily? My guess is I am just doing something simple wrong and breaking it because of user error on my part. The current one I am trying to use is from Dean Lee
Here is my old and new link structures:
OLD - http://DotDriven.com/index.php/06/sample-post/
NEW - http://DotDriven.com/sample-post/
Any tips?
Besides breaking my old links I was reminded of the importance of updating, or even creating, a 404 page. Here are a few links about putting your 404 page to good use:
- making money online with missing pages
- turning 404 page visitors into blog readers
And this one I thought was pretty funny…
- SEO Boost from 404 plugin? (see if you can spot the hidden irony)
Microsoft Live lives but does it breath?
Who’s playing Who? Cheating to win…
Recently I read two articles about Microsoft aggressively taking market share with it’s Live search engine while google and yahoo seemed to be dropping (Computerworld.com and Informationweek.com). Both credited Lives’ growing to the Live Search Club (club.live.com) where users can earn freebies by playing games that are well integrated into the search engine.
I love the idea of earning prizes for searching while I am playing games and I am sure thousands of other people do as well as suggested by the spike Live has seen or by the popularity of other “incentivized search” clubs such as Blingo.com or SearchChips.com. Live Search Club has gone further though by taking the randomness out of winning and rather than earning credits to enter into raffles or searching at the right random time to win, Live Search Club gives tickets for games played witch are then used to order their freebies. Anyone can “win” using Live Search Club and Microsoft even makes it easy by giving you easy access to the answers. Genious.
What these two articles did not touch on or maybe just didn’t know about is that a quickly growing mass of enterprising game players have tired of earning a few tickets an hour and instead created “bots” and “macros” to play for them. And I don’t just mean a couple kids in Kentucky, I mean EVERYONE is jumping on the bot thing (more after the jump) Read more
Driven and dumb
I like the domain I am using to chronicle my learning process. It just fits as I have been wanting to make a living online for as long as journalist have been writing stories about punk kids making tens of thousands a month in between video games at home. I love the idea of being able to create something that others will hopefully get some use out of and if not, then at least help me make a little coin for the thought ;).
So, DotDriven describes me now. All the silly play with the name shows my cheesiness and even I roll my eyes at it many times*. Yeah, sometimes I think I am clever but it’s almost always in a humble way ;). I assume one day I will have to grow up a bit more with my online presence and get rid of all the cheesy puns but until then, buckle your seatbelts kiddos, we’re in for a ride!
* Author accepts no fault for lack of humor of readers. Author enjoys the constant dripping of sarcasm that often times does not translate digitally and therefore warns readers that cheesiness and sarcasm help make the day more enjoyable for most involved.
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