Links to Social Media Sites
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I am in the process of updating my website where all the URLs of my individual blog pages are changing.
I have, in the past, done a lot of link sharing on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter of my individual blog posts, but now on the new site my links will be different. Therefore, when I launch the new site anyone clicking on my previous tweets or facebook shares will get a broken link.
Is there a tool I can use that identifies all the links on social media sites?
Opensite Explorer doesn't show these - unless I am missing something?
Any tips on how to overcome this would be very useful.
thanks
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Mike is absolutely correct. Whenever you are changing your website and the URL's are changing you should always make sure 301 redirect the old URL to the new one. Saves all the hassle of finding the links.
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You should set up 301 redirects. Doing this will redirect visitors, as well as link juice, from your old blog posts (linked from social media, blogs, other websites, etc.) to your new blog posts.
If you choose to do 301 redirects, you will not need to worry about searching for, identifying, and changing all of your old social media mentions to reflect your new URL format.
Does that make sense?
Mike
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