Changing Permalinks caused trouble to search engines

  • Hi,

    Good day! I have a problem, my previous format of permalinks is something like this:

    bendaggers.com/2011/10/sample-post/

    I already did many blog post using this kind of permalinks and already optimize keywords for those blogpost.
    last night, I changed the permalinks to this format:

    bendaggers.com/sample-post/

    I didnt know the effect of this. I noticed in my feedjit tracker that when an unknown user clicked my blog coming from google to read my sample-post (example only), it returns a
    “Nothing found for sample-post” This is the result of channging premalinks. all my previous blog post is affected.

    My question is how can i set a redirect from bendaggers.com/2011/10/sample-post/ to bendaggers.com/sample-post/. The hard part is, the said two blogs is the same thing, i just change permalinks format. the first permalinks is the one seen by the search engine.

    Please help me, Thanks.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You can do this with .htaccess.

    RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://bendaggers.com/$3 [L,R=301]

    Put that ABOVE the start of the WordPress rules section. Should redirect everything.

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