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I have to change few permalinks on wordpress website and I am using yoast seo plugin to redirect the links. My question is should I keep links on the original post or should I delete them.
Thank you
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Okay, something's got lost in translation, so if you can tell me whether I've understood your situation correctly that would help
1. You had an old URL domain.com/blogpost-1
2. You had other posts pointing at domain.com/blogpost-1
3. You changed the permalink to domain.com/new-blog-post
4. You also redirected domain.com/blogpost-1 to domain.com/new-blog-posthowever on your site you have pages that point to domain.com/blogpost-1 yes?
What I am saying is that any pages that still reference the old blog post should be corrected to point to the new blog post.
Any clearer?:-)
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Hi Martin, I am sorry but I am not getting you:-(
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In short, always correct your internal links to the most accurate ones. Don't remove the Internal link if you have a page of value, but if you update the link with the new URL it is better/quicker for your visitors and passes value more readily between the pages than relying on the redirect.
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Hi Martin,
Thank you very much, I mean I have a post with links pointing to other posts on my website. Now I will redirect the post by using yoast seo plugin. I have created the same post with new permalink and with same links pointing to post on my website. My question is if should I remove the links pointing to posts on my website from the original post which is now redirected to the new one?
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Just want to clarify: do you mean keep the links on the post to other sites or keep the links that used to point to your old URL?
If you have links pointing into the old URL then the 301 will help pass the value, but that diminishes over time, so where practical you should get links from external sites updated to point to the new URL so that the attribution of full link value remains in place.
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