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#2860 – best practice after change title (and alias) of an K2 Item

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Tuesday, 18 October 2016 08:10 UTC

support_crealab

Hello,
we would like to know the best practice to use when we change the title (and related alias) of an item of K2 (or Joomla article).

1) Clean some cache and 404 rebuilt automatically the new url?
2) find the old url on SEF url in 404, than delete it
3) Purge all the 404?

thank you
stefano

Tuesday, 18 October 2016 08:19 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

It depends on what you change on the page, and what you changed in the title. But generally speaking, the best practice, if the page is already indexed by search engines and ranking well, is to do nothing.

we change the title (and related alias)

You do not have to change the alias, just because you changed the title.

It is way better to just keep the URL as it is, even if the URL does not match exactly the new title, rather than change the URL and loose some ranking through a redirect (though Google said recently that redirects don't loose ranking no more)

Now if the page, and its title, are completely different, best practice is to go to the URL manager, and manually customize the URL to reflect the new title/alias. When you do that, sh404SEF will automatically create a 301 redirect from old to new URL (you should test that afterwards).

Rgds

Tuesday, 18 October 2016 09:00 UTC

support_crealab

ok, thank you for your details.

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