Made Bad Permalinks Url Mistake:

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NiccoloMachiavelli

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• Sep 28, 2011

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I've started a new website which gets around 1k hits a day which started back in July.
I wanted a short permalink url like feh.xxx/stuph/2203 but I found out that search engines like longer urls with words in them. What should I do? I've got around 400 news articles up under the short permalink structure. I'm using Wordpress btw.

Thanks for the help!

 

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trapmuzik

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• Sep 28, 2011

• #2

change it and use permalink redirect plugin

 

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NiccoloMachiavelli

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• #3

Do those long keyword urls get better serp juice or link love? I'm curious.

 

BassTrackerBoats

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• Sep 28, 2011

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This url should help you - http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/

 

MrBlue

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• Sep 28, 2011

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Change the permalink structure then redirect old urls via .htaccess file.

 

Taktical

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the long keyword URLs are considered on-site SEO. they have nothing to do with your links, instead they help google establish your relevance to a particular topic. the same way your title tags do.

 

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frappertank

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For the record: search engines DO like short URLs...but they should be keyword-filled URLs instead of URLs containing numbers or querystring parameters