Redirect old urls

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  • July 18, 2016 at 10:07 am #229157

    siparker
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    I had some very long urls because i was using country/state/city/category/listing name

    I changed this to a different permalink which worked but the old urls are all still indexed by google so i now have a duplicate content problem.

    Any way to redirect these old urls to new ones without a massive amount of work?

    July 18, 2016 at 10:27 am #229160

    Kor
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    Hi Siparker,

    Check out this plugin and see if it’s what you’re looking for https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

    Thanks!

    July 18, 2016 at 10:33 am #229165

    siparker
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    Hi

    yes i have that. but its 4000 odd urls to be mapped. i was wondering if there is an internal function that can be used or i need to book out a week to write redirects…..

    I appreciate this is a wordpress internal function and works the same across the board. but duplicate content is a real issue for SEO.

    July 18, 2016 at 10:39 am #229168

    siparker
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    one solution would be canonicals. is there a function to grab the correct permalink for a page?

    July 18, 2016 at 10:54 am #229170

    siparker
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    hmm canonicals are already on nm
    must be a crawling thing.

    July 19, 2016 at 9:13 am #229726

    Giri
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    Hello there,

    To remove indexed urls use google webmaster tools

    https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

    You can verify your website and remove the indexed links using URL Removal Tool

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