Title: Blog Post – Link not Working
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Blog Post – Link not Working

 *  [Gord715](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gord715/)
 * (@gord715)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-post-link-not-working/)
 * Hello everyone.
 * I have recently written my first blog post and uploaded to my website. After 
   searching on google I found the post in the search results.
 * However, when you click on the link in google and reach the page, it says – “
   Oops! That page can’t be found. It looks like nothing was found at this location.
   Maybe try a search?”
 * I have now realised that google must have indexed the page with the original 
   post title and I changed the post title. Should I have just waited before publishing
   or is there anything else I could have done?
 * Anyone putting in the relevant search term is going to be taken to a page and
   the content is no longer there (although it is easy to find on the site but the
   meta title is now different)
 * Thanks in advance

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 *  [Eva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eva_b/)
 * (@eva_b)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-post-link-not-working/#post-7461812)
 * Hi there,
 * When changing the title your probably also changed the posts slug?
 * If that’s the case you can install a plugin such as [Redirection](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/).
   Add the old URL (indexed by Google)in the plugins settings and point it to your
   new URL. That way your visitors get the right page and gradually Google will 
   start referring to your new URL.
 *  Thread Starter [Gord715](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gord715/)
 * (@gord715)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-post-link-not-working/#post-7461931)
 * Hello Eva
 * Thank you so much for your reply. I just checked the post slug in my wordpress
   admin area and it is under the post name that I changed to but the url when you
   reach the page via google is still the original post name.
 * I don’t actually remember changing or even inputting a post ‘slug’ to be honest.
   I will try what you have suggested and let you know how I get on if you don’t
   mind.
 * Thanks and have a nice weekend.
 * Gordon

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