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)
Zak Johnson and Motive Interactive giving away cool toys
Motive Interactive looks to be getting in on the affiliate contest by sponsoring a pretty cool challenge on Zak’s blog . Most of the really cool prizes require some real super affiliate kind of numbers, like a freakin SMART CAR! But there are also plenty of cool prizes for other levels and even though that push $1k in earnings can get an xbox 360 elite package!
Here are ther "teirs" that are open to win:
TITANIUM TIER: $300,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: A New Smart Car ($11,990 Value)
PLATINUM TIER: $90,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: VIP Las Vegas Vacation
1st Class Air, Stay at the Wynn for 2 nights , $500 Cash
GOLD TIER: $10,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: 32 GB iPod Touch with $500 iTunes Gift Card
SILVER TIER: $1,000 Commissions Earned
Reward: XBox 360 Elite Package
The contest ends at the end the month though so if you want to get in on the prize levels you need to really push some traffic fast.
You can also get entered into a drawing for some other smaller, but still cool, prizes just for blogging about the contest.
Big Jason puts on a BIG contest
Jason has taken the crown of the biggest marketing blog contest ever with over $40k in prizes! Not just made up numbers for useless prizes either…some great, and valuable, prizes that most anyone in this industry would want. At least I’d want pretty much everything listed lol.
Anyway, be sure to head on over and get your entries in as it is almost over (August 1st). You can check out the contest info and the huge list of prizes here: Big Jason Contest
Milk A Cow and Win An Iphone 3G (the newest and bestest iphone)
John Cow just finished up with his pretty huge contest and gave away a TON of great prizes. With all the contest going around you might be surprised that his wasn’t another "Market Leverage" contest. But once he finished that up he figured he shouldn’t deny his readers some of the Market Leverage love so without any time to rest after his last promotion he is already running a new one. Read more
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