What happens if I change an old post's title?
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Will it break all the links to that post?
The reason I ask is this: I gave someone my blog address so he could take a look at it. He just wrote me a note to say he can’t access my blog. He’s at a library, and he gets this message I suppose from the library’s porn filter: Forbidden Keyword! Naked Girls!
Now, I do NOT have photos of Naked Girls! on my humble blog, nor do I have any tags called naked girls. I DO, however, have one post called: talking about pictures of naked girls in a newspaper
My question: If I remove the term naked girls from the title, to say, ached goils, will all links to that post be broken?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If you change the title, the URL remains the same, so no broken links. You’ll get broken links if you change the slug (the editable part of the URL).
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-title-url/
But if you don’t change the slug, then the filter will keep seeing naked girls… -
OK, so the next question is this:
What do I have to do so that the porn filters will not filter out my post?
Do I change the title?
Or do I change the slug?
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If you don’t want to be “filtered” then you have to change both the title and the “slug” which means you will have a broken link.
You have to decide between a broken link, or a new title/slug which won’t be filtered bylibraries (or others) by the words “naked girls.”
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You might still run into problems with “naked girls.” if it is in the body of the Post – many library’s and schools have problems with doing research on things like breast cancer – trying to protect kids from porn and protect them from doing their school research projects.
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@lettershometoyou
I usually tell people to avoid creating “404” (page not found) which is what happens when one deletes a post. In this case I say delete it and get this over with. Once it is deleted and produces a 404 when the URL is entered and clicked, then you can use the URL removal tool in your Google webmaster’s account and have it removed from Google’s cache. -
Do I even have a Google webmaster’s account? Is that something that comes automatically with a simple wp.com blog like mine? If not, is is complicated to set up?
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Does setting up an account with them change anything in the way search engines treat your blog? I already get a lot of hits through searches, especially image searches. My photos often come up top left on the first page. Will that change?
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Registering changes nothing other than you have access to a few more tools to see how your blog is doing on the web – you can request Pages / Posts that you deleted to be removed from their cache – you can see a few more stats on how Google sends traffic to your site (or Bing , Yahoo)
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I’ve configure my blog with google webmaster tool. It definitely direct more traffic to your blog. But the question is:
How to remove google cache using webmaster tool? -
@lettershometoyou
What auxclass said here is correct > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/what-happens-if-i-change-an-old-posts-title?replies=11#post-772101
See also > How to remove data from Google’s cache -
But see here:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1269119Don’t use the URL tool to get rid of pages [… t]o clean up cruft, like old pages that 404. The tool is intended for URLs that urgently need to be removed, such as confidential data that was accidentally exposed. If you recently made changes to your site and now have some outdated URLs in the index, Google’s crawlers will see this as we recrawl your URLs, and those pages will naturally drop out of our search results over time. There’s no need to request an urgent removal through this tool.
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as we recrawl your URLs, and those pages will naturally drop out of our search results over time.
Sorry they are full of bull – I moved onto WordPress.COM over a year ago and Google is still dinging me for crawl errors – in some cases they have no clue where the page they are dinging me came from but I get dinged for it – when I submit a page the page stays in error – sometimes the request to remove only lasts two or three days – over 800 submitted pages and I still have 30 errors showing – the reference pages in most all cases are from over 18 months ago –
Not sure what “naturally drop out” time frame is – but without access to the robots.txt file I can’t exclude directories to keep pages from showing up again and again and again and again and again and again.
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