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When I first started this blog I used the default permalink structure which gave me the following type of link http://www.blogsire.com/SBizzTech/?p=123 which is all well and good but it does not help in attaining a high PR and is also a veritable pain in the arse when trying to work out which post the link is pointing to. I thought about changing the permalink structure within wordpress hoping that it would only take effect from any new posts. Unfortunately it meant that all pages indexed by search engines would become invalid and I would also lose all those links that were already linking to me.

I thought my only solution would be a plugin and after a long search I found Permalinks Migration Plugin For Wordpress which turned out to be perfect. What the plugin does is it allows you to change your permalink and activates what is called a “301 Redirect”, which tells the search engines that your pages have moved and redirects them to your new page so that there is no loss of traffic and a greater potential for a higher pagerank.

Installation is simple but configuration was a bit of a pain simply because I used the default Wordpress setting and there was no instructions as to what code to insert when using the default setting.

Once you have downloaded the file, you upload it to your plugin directory then;

1. Goto admin panel->options->PermalinksMigration.set the old permanlink structure of your site. If you use the default setting enter this code as I did enter  /%post_id%/
2. Goto admin panel->options->Permalinks.change the new permalink structure to what you want. (I use /%category%/%postname%/)
3. That’s about it. I hope it works for you.

Now all I have to do is sit back and enjoy the new permalink structure.

A salesman was driving down this deserted stretch of road when notices a sign saying, “Sisters Of Mercy House Of Prostitution - 10km”

He figures he’s just tired and that he was seeing things, but a little further down the road he sees another sign, “Sisters Of Mercy House Of Prostitution - 5km”.

This time he realizes that the signs must be for real and when he drives past the next one saying, “Sisters Of Mercy House Of Prostitution - Next turn on the left”, he decides to check it out.

He pulls into the driveway and parks in the car park near an old stone building with the sign, “Sisters Of Mercy”. He climbs up the stairs and knocks on the door and a nun answers.

“What may we do for you my son?”

“I saw your sign down the road and I was wondering if we could do some business,” he says.

“Very well my son, please follow me”.

He is lead through so many passages that he becomes disorientated, but finally the nun stops and tells the man to knock on the door. The man complies and another nun opens the door, but this one is holding a tin cup. She tells the guy to put $50 into the cup and then tells him to go a large wooden door at the end of the hallway.

He puts the $50 into the cup and moves off eagerly towards the end of the hall. He opens the door and slips through closing it behind him until he hears it lock. He turns around and finds himself in the car park facing another sigh that says, “You Have Just Been Screwed By The Sisters Of Mercy”.