Changing URL slug

blueygg

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• May 16, 2020

• #1

Hey,

Quick question, I have a site that I am working on and noticed the slugs of the URLs are really long and some irrelevant. The pages are in the top 100 but nowhere near first page, and there are 0 links.

Would it be ok to change the URL slug to 3-4 words? Do I need to delete/resubmit sitemap again to GSC?

I don't mind loosing rankings for a couple of weeks till it picks up all the URLs again.

What do you think?

 

PotatoWatts

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• May 16, 2020

• #2

I would make a 301 redirect from one url to the other, you never know

 

Nargil

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If they pages aren't ranking and don't make any money, then go for it. However, really do make sure that you redirect the old URLs into new ones, especially if they are already indexed.

This plugins sets up the redirects automatically, when you change the URL, should save you some headaches - https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

 

wiaderny01

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• May 16, 2020

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If you're using WordPress then YoastSEO plugin does all the work for you.

 

blueygg

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• #5

Sweet! Cheers for that, will do the redirects.

 

Kintoups

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Yes, change the urls.
I wouldn’t add a plugin just for that though. It’s not worth it.
I would create 301 redirects directly in the htaccess file. Check out this guide
https://www.marketing-mojo.com/blog/301-redirects-formatting-bulk-redirects-in-4-quick-steps/

 

Jasmine Gill

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• May 19, 2020

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wiaderny01 said:

If you're using WordPress then YoastSEO plugin does all the work for you.

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Yes, I also use yoast plugin and it work well

 

NotReallyAcc

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If they are not ranking then go for it, redirect them to new url with 301 redirect and you will be good. Wordpress has plenty of plugins to add 301 like "redirection" plugin.