Some people change the post permalink after publishing the post because they might think that the title of post is not appropriate or they find any good title for the post. Now if you change the permalink of the post then everything looks fine, your new title might makes your post more attractive but somewhere it is wrong.
As you publish a new post and the RSS feed technology update a post in different feed readers of your subscribers. There are many feed readers that watch the title of the post to decide that it is new or not. (Google reader is an example), if you change the title of your post then these feed readers (which work on a particular algorithm) would show your same post twice.
This will make your feed readers confused and the reputation of your blog might effect. So don’t try to do this work.
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Make sure that the decided title of an article should be correct and it should tell about the content of an article.
Once the post appear in the feed reader, whatever the change you made on the content of your article it didn’t make any change in your feeds Also you can’t delete your feeds once it is appear in anyone’s feed reader. So be sure whatever you write in an article is true and contains no mistakes.
If you want to change , change your post title, but make sure your permalink is not changed after it, else your blog will start giving 404 page error.
In case you made a big mistake with permalink and there is no option and you have to change it, always add a proper redirection.
Article by Himanshu Yadav
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Nice article Himanshu !
But, when I was a newbie to WP I used to change the permalinks of my old imported articles.. because I was not aware of what the hell “permalinks” are..
Thanks for the tip.. will avoid it now !
Thanks Pradeep for the kind words. In starting phase of Blogging nobody take care of feed, which should be avoided.
Hi, Thanks for the post.
But as per what i have seen, if you have already published your article and then if you change the permalink then the previous link automatically redirects to your new link so you dont actually need to worry about it.
If you have taken such a step (changed permalink) you should use permalink migration plugin.
Nice share Himanshu, its better to keep permalinks constant to avoid dead links and feed conflicts! However, if the need arises, do change the title only and must not change the existing wordPress permalink.
Thanks for the post!
pretty conducive post dear
Hey really excellent tip for the freshers., i too changed the links so far. ya i know the problem thanks for the usefull post
The main problem is of Broken Content! I have experienced it a lot of times when I have made the permalink editing mistake!
Yeah, once I almost changed the permalink of the just published post until I realized that I shouldn’t
Spot on
There are plugins that help with permalink changes but you’re right, generally speaking, leave it alone once the post has been published. The key is getting it right the first time so bloggers should really think about their “killer” title before pushing that publish button!
Good tip.There is another serious problem if you change the permalink after the post is published.As soon as you publish a post the ping servers get into action sending pings to all those pages that yuo have linked to.Now if you change the permalink later on,these pingbacks are all dead.Result : Backlinks are lost.
Hi, I made a huge mistake by changing permalinks a week ago without redirecting them. Now I have lost all my traffic and google is giving me results of 96 not found 404 errors. I realized this a week later then I changed my permalinks setting back to the original setting, do you think it is too late?