{"id":267,"date":"2007-01-16T01:05:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/permalink-redirect-plugin-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T01:05:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:05:18","slug":"permalink-redirect-plugin-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/blogging\/permalink-redirect-plugin-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Recover Lost Blog Traffic with Killer Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will know that I’ve switched from my old \/post-ID\/post-name\/ permalink structure to the more SEO-friendly \/category\/post-name\/ permalink structure a few weeks back. (Blog Permalink Structure Optimization and Bringing Hordes of Traffic Over<\/a>)<\/p>\n

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (or a SEM) to figure out that http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com\/blogging\/wordpress-optimization<\/a> is going to be a heck of a lot easier both for humans and search engines, compared to http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com\/573\/wordpress-optimization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Besides the richer keyword dense URL, your blog visitors will have an idea what category your post falls into, especially if you have a (fairly) tightly-themed blog (I’m doing my best to focus on blogging\/affiliate marketing\/social traffic generation).<\/p>\n

To counter the potential loss of 300+ indexed pages in the search engines, I’d spent quite a significant amount of time on a 301 Redirect page, manually keying in cryptic redirects like:<\/p>\n

Redirect \/101\/exclusive-99-internet-marketing-giveway-including-robert-allen-book\/ http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/exclusive-99-internet-marketing-giveway-including-robert-allen-book\/<\/a>
\n(And repeating that another 299 times).<\/p>\n

But then again, having gone on a roll in the last couple of months, the prospect of losing traffic wasn’t a pleasant prospect.<\/p>\n

Providence wasn’t far, however.<\/p>\n

I’d checked out regular reader Ade Lamidi’s OnlineGist blog post Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He’d used a WordPress plugin developed by China-based Dean Lee, who’s Chief Technical Officer for a domain registrar.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link: Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress<\/a><\/p>\n

The plugin works like a dynamic 301 Redirect page generator and it works beautifully.<\/p>\n

I’m already feel a zen-like calm as I feel the traffic returning (especially from the URL pointers from the blogging meme<\/a> I’d launched and incoming links from Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger<\/a> writing projects)<\/p>\n

A note<\/strong>: Be sure configure Dean’s plugin configuration before<\/strong> you activate it. Else it’ll generate redirects based on the default permalink setting (rather than your<\/strong> old permalink setting) and you’ll look like a wanker complaining that the plugin doesn’t work in Dean’s comments section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regular readers will know that I’ve switched from my old \/post-ID\/post-name\/ permalink structure to the more SEO-friendly \/category\/post-name\/ permalink structure a few weeks back. (Blog Permalink Structure Optimization and Bringing Hordes of Traffic Over) It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (or a SEM) to figure out that http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com\/blogging\/wordpress-optimization is going to be a heck of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[95,1767,485,486,1773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}