Changing existing links to private posts

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  gpix · Member · Feb 14, 2014 at 11:54 am

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  I’m changing the way in which I use my blog, and I just recently made most of the posts I’ve created over the last four years private. The problem is that the are a lot of hyperlinks in circulation, and I don’t want people to get that Page not found (“This is somewhat embarrassing … “) message.

  How would I go about automatically redirecting those old hyperlinks to land the readers on a different (public) page or post?

  Thanks in advance!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 14, 2014 at 9:55 pm

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  How would I go about automatically redirecting those old hyperlinks to land the readers on a different (public) page or post?

  You can’t. Deleting blog content and deleting blogs and/or making posts or pages private does not remove any indexed content from the SERPs (search engine page results). Google and Bing only clear their caches of deleted indexed content that produces a 404 (page not found) every 3 – 6 months.