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Will I loose the rankings if I change the permalink

by pixotico
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Hi everybody!
Will I loose the rankings if I change the permalink of my post, I want to put the exact match to my keyword, I don't have any backlinks to the article, so I'm not afraid of loosing them. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author sowens
    I did. I also lost my rank for another website when I dublicated the content from my blog onto the home page. Dumb, rooky mistake.
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  • Profile picture of the author run
    Originally Posted by pixotico View Post

    Hi everybody!
    Will I loose the rankings if I change the permalink of my post, I want to put the exact match to my keyword, I don't have any backlinks to the article, so I'm not afraid of loosing them. Thanks
    If you have backlinks to that particular url, you will lost backlinks as well as traffic. Make sure you properly redirect to the ex-url to the new one.
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  • Profile picture of the author jpweb
    It shouldn't be a problem to change the link, just make sure you use a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file to ensure that IF it was indexed somewhere or someone linked to it and it's not showing it will be properly redirected in the future. Google as a section on their Webmaster Tools support page along with a video about it

    301 redirects - Webmaster Tools Help

    Check it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Yes you will loos the backlinks and the traffic for sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author pixotico
    Thanks you all, my problem is the ranking in google, not the links, I don't have any back links to this article. But its ranking well.
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    • Profile picture of the author MrVen
      301 redirect works. I won't hurt your rankings on Google. Its the seamless way of changing the permalinks.

      Thanks.
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