Old URLs in Google after Permalink modification

  • Hi Everybody!

    On my site I used the normal URL structure: /?p=123. Google indexed my site.
    After that I changed permalinks to: /%postname%/. Google indexed it too, but the old /?p=123 URLs and some old URLs still in Google and Google Webmasters say that there is duplicate content problem because of that.

    What to do? How can I remove them? Clicking on /?p=123 URLs they redirect to the new ones, but the duplication is a big problem.

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  • Thread Starter Zoltan Baffy

    (@macika)

    up

    I don’t think that is really an issue. Google just needs to update its database and this may happen overtime. Not that quickly. The important thing is that your old URLs permanently redirects to the correct site and content.

    You can only consider site duplication if they are 2 different URLs such that https://your-domain.com/?p=123 and https://your-domin.com/the-post URI shows the same content. But if https://your-domain.com/?p=123 redirects and shows https://your-domin.com/the-post it’s good.

    You can install some redirect plugins. I installed a plugin called “pretty link” on my site seattleorganicseo.com/blog

    It helps for the short term, but like grejs said, eventually google should be able to spider the pages with their new urls as well.

    Thread Starter Zoltan Baffy

    (@macika)

    Thank You Guys!

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