search engine indexed links

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  asthmaattack · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 1:18 am

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  Hi,

  I am migrating my site (not a blog) http://www.example.com (hosted elsewhere) to http://www.example.com (hosted on wordpress.com). In this process, my site link structure could change. How can I do the following in an SEO-optimised way (an example just to illustrate):

  search engine users that click on the indexed link http://www.example.com/travel/newyork.htm (as per my old directory structure) are directed to http://www.example.com/newyork.htm (as per new directory structure on wordpress.com)?

  Thanks,
  RC

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  asthmaattack · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 1:21 am

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  Sorry, I should also point out that even some of the backlinks (on other sites) pointing to my old site might have a different URL address wrt new site link structure.

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 2:14 am

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  Hi RC. This finding might help:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blogger-to-wp-with-301-redirect?replies=7#post-513727

  By the way, there are no .htm or .html files in WordPress.COM.

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  asthmaattack · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 3:09 am

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  Thanks for your reply. When you talk about ‘HTTP 301 redirect’ in one of your replies on that link, do you mean we need to explicitly tune that feature. Or is it all automatically done by wp.com?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 3:11 am

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  See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/offsite-redirect/

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  airodyssey · Member · Nov 17, 2010 at 3:22 am

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  From http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/making-redirects-permanent/ (a post which is unrelated to our topic, but anyway…) :

  A 301 redirect tells search engines the new link has moved permanently, and they can discard the old links.