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WP - Do I mess upp ifI do this ?

by tofrar
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I have few weeks old blog and the article I have today is around 25.

I want to add new category and organize my blog better then it is today. In other word I think I did start wrong and I know when my blog grow from now it will be pain for visitor on my blog to find and read my blog.

However google did index my blog already and are sending me few visitor daily.

What happen if I change structure and move some post to other category ?

Some URL will change right? Will that not affect my blog when it come to google?
#ifi #mess #upp
  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Originally Posted by tofrar View Post

    I have few weeks old blog and the article I have today is around 25.
    You will get indexed again.

    If you want to change the structure, do it now.
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  • Profile picture of the author David James
    Yeah, you won't lose much if you make the changes now.

    If it puts your mind at rest, you can use a redirection plug in (or do it manually) to redirect broken links to your home page/most popular post.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sarevok
    Well, your blog is relatevely new, so I would fix the structure NOW before it's too late.

    I have a few blogs with like 1,000 pages indexed, much better to fix it when you only have 10 or 20.

    The backlash will be minimal, and will correct itself IMO.
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Shook
      Since you are only a few weeks old you are not going to have much of a problem just deleting the posts and moving them over to the new categories, but if you are worried about it, you could get one of those redirection plugins or one of those that does renaming.

      Or you could just rewrite them and put them in the new category then when the new ones are indexed delete the old ones. The odds that you are going to have a ton of links to the old articles is minimal. So it is mostly a matter of convenience for your readers, but if you have decent navigation that makes more sense than your old way, you are going to do great.
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