Impact of Changing Blog URL vs WordPress URL in General Options

The more you change the location of your blog the more confused the search engines become.
Decide what you want, settle with it and stop making changes.

Also, be aware that you can NOT change arbitrarily those two values without making other changes. Make sure the new setup works with every internal link.

Hi,
Every link on the site is working fine. I made one change and that was to change the default that was set during the install process. Note that Google is pointing to the artsnova.marsartgallery.com link so it obviously is not seeing the new links.

So what other changes do I need to make?

Thanks,
Jim, [sig moderated]

G. as any major SE comes to index/spider your site at certain intervals. Seemingly, it was there just right after you posted your post… and now you’ll have to wait until it comes next time.

If all the links work, then you should be OK. In 99% of cases like this (=changing to two URI values) people come here crying nothing works on their blog. Obviously, you were more cautious ??

For further SEO issues, please search and or use Google, since we do not provide answers to non-WP issues.

Hi Moshu,
No, not cautious – just lucky.

While I was fairly certain that this was not a WP issue since my links were all working, I wasn’t positive. Since I had made a change to an operational parameter my fear was that I had fouled something up.

Strange though since the first post and next post were less than an hour apart in real time that Google would have picked up the first and not the second and now here it is 5 days later and none of the other posts are showing up. In fact I don’t even know how Google could have found it so quickly since at that time there were no links to the blog as I had only just created it.

I tell you what: I’ll mark this resolved once Google actually finds me at the new address.

Note that I just submitted the new URL to Google’s Blog Search Ping Service. Let’s see if that works.

Thanks,
Jim, [no sigs! mod]

Okay I think that I’ve found the problem and it appears to be with WordPress. When I look at the source code for the web page, all the link tags in the header (stylesheet, alternate, pingback, EditURI) are pointing at artsnova.marsartgallery.com/blog/… and not at https://www.artsnova.com/blog/…

So how do I go about changing these values?

Thanks,
Jim

All those values are taken from the two URI values you have in your admin > Options > General.

As I said: you cannot change them to “fantasy” values. They should point to the real location.
And if you are using redirects… WP will hate you ??

Hi Moshu,
RATS! My problem is that artsnova is a subdomain of marsartgallery.com and is structured on the server so that is shows up in a subdirectory. I really don’t want both domain names in the URLs. It’s a shame that WP can’t use a directory structure name internally and a URL externally with a xref mapping. I was hoping that there was an internal variable that I could go in and change.

Okay if as you say all these values are being filled in from the WP and Blog URL values in General Options, can I go in, remove the variables and hardcode my URLs on the output side of the equation?

Thanks,
Jim