Stop WordPress permalink change to avoid Feed conflicts
WordPress permalink change should be avoided at any cost after publishing of any post on your blog. While using WordPress blog, we always have the advantage of very easy WordPress permalink setup change or keywords change in permalink which lack in blogger blogs. But it is never a good idea to take advantage of such facilities once the posts has got published in your blog. Here is the very simple reason for avoiding WordPress permalink change.
Why we should avoid permalink change after posting blogs?
Appearantly WordPress blog permalink change looks very pretty and you may be very tempted once you find some SEO friendly title for your old published posts to change it along with the title of blog to hike its SEO ranking, but it will left you with lifetime agony of getting 404 error, loosing your blog credibility and consequently loosing loyal readers.
All this happens due to RSS feed technology associated with our blogs. This RSS feed updates technology works beyond our control. No sooner we use to publish our blog posts, these RSS feed updater use to update lots of feed readers that your readers already used to subscribe your blog. Now many feed readers use to decide the new post by watching its title or both permalink along with the page title. Thus they will start showing the same post twice in their feed readers once either of the blog title or permalink gets change.
The pain problem with RSS feeds is that you cannot change your feeds, or delete these any way, so -
- This duplicate content in the feed reader will confuse your loyal readers.
- This will cost you the credibility of your blog.
- Since with permalink change, the older post location get replaced with newer one but never delete the older one, this would result in 404 error page or page not found.
Conclusion:
The only solution to avoid such things is
- Do SEO search for your title before publishing any post so that it will generate SEO friendly WordPress permalink.
- If necessary, do change the title only and must not change the existing WordPress permalink.
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[...] Meta title tag is very important tag for any blog post and serves as the gateway of the post. Changing meta title tag not only confuses your readers but can also hurt your existing Google ranking. In my previous post I have written about how permalink change can hurt your blog credibility. [...]