Can we change the titles of articles and blogs in our website?
Hi,
Can we change the titles of articles and blogs in our website?
I have a site where i have 200+ articles and blogs.
They are 6 months old and already indexed by many search engines.
Now i am thinking of changing the titles of all as they are not so good and one word mostly.
As the site creates the URL with the title. changing it would it be an issue?
Would search engine listing of my site be affected.
Regards
Raja
Can we change the titles of articles and blogs in our website?
I have a site where i have 200+ articles and blogs.
They are 6 months old and already indexed by many search engines.
Now i am thinking of changing the titles of all as they are not so good and one word mostly.
As the site creates the URL with the title. changing it would it be an issue?
Would search engine listing of my site be affected.
Regards
Raja
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I have a drupal site
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Ok thanks
I do not have backlinks for the ones i want to change
Also if i change the title the URL changes and would google not reindex the correct ones and remove the old ones?
Will google show the old one and the new one also always?
I do not have backlinks for the ones i want to change
Also if i change the title the URL changes and would google not reindex the correct ones and remove the old ones?
Will google show the old one and the new one also always?
Google will eventually remove the old links if they are no longer present. Google will 'crawl' your website every so often and should automatically update the links. The pages that change will not be available in search results for some time though, until they are re-indexed.
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Ok thanks
YOu mean i can change the title and allow the URL to change and within few days google will reindex and remove the old link and add the new one
YOu mean i can change the title and allow the URL to change and within few days google will reindex and remove the old link and add the new one
I agree with the other comments that changing your URL should be avoided if possible (internally, the page is maintained as a 'node' that doesn't change).
However, if your traffic is not solely generated by search engine redirects, then you should be fine by doing this. Google will cleanup it's database within a few days (in my experience). If you have a page that was significantly high in the ranks, it will take a little longer, but Google does drop broken links.
However, if your traffic is not solely generated by search engine redirects, then you should be fine by doing this. Google will cleanup it's database within a few days (in my experience). If you have a page that was significantly high in the ranks, it will take a little longer, but Google does drop broken links.
my biggest concern would be for any visitors who have linked to the article and try to revisit later. If that is not a big concern, then it shouldn't be too uncomfortable of a change.
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If so they all behave differently by changing names. Some behave the way that robertkennedy suggests, others do not.
If you are using a service such as Blogspot or hosted WordPress, then your options are determined more by the hoster.