Wordpress SEO Change of Structure

[tdsnet]

Hi, I have a Wordpress SEO Question.

I ran the SEOMOZ checker on my website and it discovered roughly 70 of my 250 blogs had a URL length problem. I have removed the year and month from the WP structure as I read elsewhere that it is not important.

The blogs displayed as follows:

domain.com/blog/2011/02/contents-of-the-blog

and the new structure is:

domain.com/blog/contents-of-the-blog

I have resubmitted the new structure to Google Webmaster Tools XML and updating the on-page sitemap on my main site.

My blog was cached on 25^th October and seems to be caching every 7 days, my website cached on the 24th and I wonder if I should do any follow up work to ensure the content gets crawled properly.

a)      Individually 301 redirect the old URLs to the new.

b)      Individual Canonical links for each.

c)      Adding the old pages to the robots file and disallowing.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[tdsnet]

Thanks! 301's it is then

[JamesNorquay]

To be honest mate I would find out from your blogs which pages are the most linked too, then 301 re direct these at bulk, map out the re directs if you have time to relevant pages.

But yeah I have come across a similar thing with a few WP sites I changed structre on, you do see a loss in page based ranking so I fixed it by mapping out re directs, these blogs were small but.