Can I change URL structure and maintain social signals?
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I have recently updated an area of our website that had lots of content and some great social signals such as tweets, pins and facebook likes. The URL structure has changed and URLs have been redirected, but I'm wondering if we have now lost all the social signals? No pins, likes etc show on lots of popular content since the URLs have changed. Is there any way to preserve these or are they lost forever? Thanks in advance
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Thanks again for the link. Have you tried this? Do you know what happens if you use this process and then get new likes, tweets etc? Do the numbers only show for the old URL or will they combine with any new social interaction?
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Thank you, this looks really useful
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Martijn,
Excellent link, thank you. Great answer.
Robert
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It's not completely the way of preserving your shares, pins & likes for all of your content but in this post of Mike King he explains on how to still get the numbers for your old pages: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2172926/How-to-Maintain-Social-Shares-After-a-Site-Migration
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