How To Change Permalink of Already Published Post on Blogger

You might have already posted a good number of posts on your Blog before learning about SEO. And one of the main points of SEO is permalink.

It is important to use custom permalink especially SEO friendly permalink on your blog/website to have them crawled better and quicker by search engines. Hence it is good to learn about permalink and use them properly.

➧What is a permalink?

According to Wikipedia, "A permalink or permanent link is a URL that is intended to remain unchanged for many years into the future."

In other words, a permalink is a link to an individual blog post. For example, this post's permalink is https://suhidsworld.blogspot.com/2019/03/Change-permalink-already-posted-blogger.html.



➧How to set custom permalink?

It is easy. Before you publish a post click on Permalink from Post Settings sidebar. Where custom permalink radio button will be already selected for you.
Now to change the permalink to a custom one by changing the words in the text area there.
custom permalink after publishing a blog post

You should follow these rules to make a custom permalink though:

  • Put " - " after every keyword.
  • And refrain from using STOP words in your permalink. A useful list of STOP words is in this link. Click ME

➧How to change permalink after a post has already been published?

You may have already noticed by now that after you have published a post you can't change its permalink.

Don't worry.  Changing the permalink of an already published post is easy. You just have to :
blogger permalink changing tutorial

  • Revert the published post to draft again.
  • Then edit the post and copy current permalink and save that somewhere.
  • After that change permalink to your desired one.
  • Hit save and re-publish the post again. All done!

➧Redirect posts so you don't break previously shared link.

Now you have a custom permalink for your previously posted posts too. Your work is done, right?

Not quite. You are not finished yet.

Now that you have changed the link of your post you will need to redirect them.
Otherwise, users will go to an invalid page if you have shared the previous link to social media or literally anywhere. Which you definitely don't want. You can solve this easily redirecting them.
  • Goto your blog settings>search Settings then click edit on custom redirect.

blogger change previous posted permalink

  • select new redirect if it's the first time for that specific link.
  • Two new text box will appear named from: and to: 
blogger permalink change
  • Just put them there according to the above pic. Remember to not put your domain name. For example : yourblogname.blogspot.com/20yy/dd/your_premalink.html . So, you need to just put the green text.
  • Then hit save. That's it.
Hope this will help you, new bloggers. Feel free to comment if you haven't understood a part of it.

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