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Hey all,

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. I ran Blog Grader and it is detecting that some of my previous post titles are too long. If I shorten them to improve my blog grade, will I break anything on the search engine side?

Thanks!

Buck

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3:10 pm
December 12, 2010

Forest Parks

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It depends if you are getting traffic to them. I would not change them if they are bringing in visitors.

If you do want to change them then you may want to do a redirect. I do this often and use this plugin for wordpress: http://wordpress.org/extend/pl…..direction/

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3:20 pm
December 12, 2010

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I use the redirection plugin as well in my wealth informatics blog. In an another blog I have I use Simple 310 Redirects plugin as the redirection plugin didn't work well with that theme.

Both of them does the job well.

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10:04 pm
December 12, 2010

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I use the redirection plugin as well so that old titles are automatically redirected to the new titles.

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5:17 am
December 13, 2010

Invest It Wisely

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Agree with the others; if you end up changing the permalink you'll want to make sure you have a redirect there.

8:12 am
December 13, 2010

Buck Inspire

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Hey Forest,

Will look into this. Honestly, some of my old links don't provide traffic so don't think it matters if I change those titles or not. We'll see. Thanks! Smile

Forest Parks said:

It depends if you are getting traffic to them. I would not change them if they are bringing in visitors.

If you do want to change them then you may want to do a redirect. I do this often and use this plugin for wordpress: http://wordpress.org/extend/pl…..direction/

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8:14 am
December 13, 2010

Buck Inspire

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Hey Suba,

Thanks will check it out! Cool Any reason you didn't select one for consistency?

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

I use the redirection plugin as well in my wealth informatics blog. In an another blog I have I use Simple 310 Redirects plugin as the redirection plugin didn't work well with that theme.

Both of them does the job well.

Buck Inspire

8:18 am
December 13, 2010

Buck Inspire

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Thanks much! Cool

Invest It Wisely said:

Agree with the others; if you end up changing the permalink you'll want to make sure you have a redirect there.

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9:57 am
December 13, 2010

Suba @ Wealth Informatics

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Buck Inspire said:

Hey Suba,

Thanks will check it out! Any reason you didn't select one for consistency?

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

I use the redirection plugin as well in my wealth informatics blog. In an another blog I have I use Simple 310 Redirects plugin as the redirection plugin didn't work well with that theme.

Both of them does the job well.

I used the redirection plugin for my finance blog. After using it for 6 months, I started another blog, a non-finance blog. In that blog I added the redirection plugin, but it didn't work well. I did some searching and found it was a problem with the theme conflict. So I tried the 301 simple redirects and it worked. I could have deleted the redirection plugin in my finance blog and used the 301 redirects plugin as well, but I just didn't. No good reason Smile I might have to manually add all the redirections again if I did I guess.

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9:04 pm
December 15, 2010

Buck Inspire

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Thanks for the explaination. Still mulling it over.

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

I used the redirection plugin for my finance blog. After using it for 6 months, I started another blog, a non-finance blog. In that blog I added the redirection plugin, but it didn't work well. I did some searching and found it was a problem with the theme conflict. So I tried the 301 simple redirects and it worked. I could have deleted the redirection plugin in my finance blog and used the 301 redirects plugin as well, but I just didn't. No good reason I might have to manually add all the redirections again if I did I guess.

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