301 Redirects for Posts WITHIN My WordPress.com Blog Pages
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Hi all, I changed all the publish dates of my individual blog entries because I wanted it to appear in a certain order (it’s a narrative travel blog), but didn’t realize that would also change the blog URLs until it was too late. The problem is Google has indexed all my old URLs so I’m not getting any search traffic because they all go to 404 error pages.
How feasible is it to set up a 301 redirect to the correct URLs within my blog? If I can’t do that, is there anything else I can do to signal to the readers coming from search that my pages are still there, they just moved? I don’t want to lose my google rankings because I do well for a lot of the keywords I’m writing about.
Btw, I know that ultimately Google will figure it out and link to the right URL, but it’s been a few days already and I’m losing potential traffic.
Finally, I’ve also though about permanently move my site to WordPress.org someday. Is there a clean way to do that without losing rankings, pingbacks, and any other features linked to my wordpress.com blog? If so, I’d rather make the move sooner than later.
Thanks for listening and for your help!
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And to your question on going self-hosted. You will lose your page rankings and pingbacks and such. There is no way around that. All you can do is to put a “we’ve moved” post up on your blog here and wait it out. With my move, I had recovered everything within about two months.
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