Title: Is this permalink structure possible?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Is this permalink structure possible?

 *  Anonymous User 8711240
 * (@anonymized-8711240)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/)
 * Hey everyone,
    I have got a questen about a special permalink structure. Is it
   possible to have something like this: “[domain].de/index.php?page=[%postname%]”
   Because I want to move content from a webpage to an wordpress backend and the
   existing content got a good google ranking. Best regards.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/#post-2457701)
 * Yes, but you can do something EVEN COOLER.
 * Make your permalinks `%postname%` so your URLs will be domain.de/postname (that
   looks cool, right?)
 * THEN go into your .htaccess and above the lines for `#BEGIN WORDPRESS` put in
   this
 * `RewriteRule ^index.php?page=(.*) http://domain.de/$1 [L,R=301]`
 * Now [domain].de/index.php?page=[%postname%] will redirect 🙂
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 8711240
 * (@anonymized-8711240)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/#post-2457703)
 * I know this 🙂
    But then i’ll lose the Google ranking.
 * > Yes, but you can do something EVEN COOLER.
 * So my question is how do i do this?
 *  [lonniea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lonniea/)
 * (@lonniea)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/#post-2457712)
 * Wha……
 * Let me see if i understand this 100%. Are you saying that i can put my old content(*.
   html) written in the year 2002 to appear as a blog post like this…. mydomain.
   com/%postname% ?
 * As i have an aged domain with loads of content and would love to have it all 
   on the blog platform. (but man… a lot of work) At the moment i’ve merely added
   a link to the old site.
 * So my eyes are WIDE open here. lol
 *  [lonniea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lonniea/)
 * (@lonniea)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/#post-2457714)
 * @Chorstikus – no it wont hurt your rankings as this is merely a redirect as 301.
   and google doesnt mind that at all. if i’m understanding this correctly.
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User 8711240
 * (@anonymized-8711240)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/#post-2457717)
 * > @Chorstikus – no it wont hurt your rankings as this is merely a redirect as
   > 301. and google doesnt mind that at all. if i’m understanding this correctly.
 * Yeah you are right. I just don’t get it earlier.
    I thought it has to be the 
   same url structure. 🙂
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/#post-2457759)
 * Nope, as long as it redirects, you don’t lose your Google ranks 🙂
 * 301 redirects are super cool awesome sauce because it lets you keep your ranking,
   AND have uber simple, pretty URLs 🙂
 * The trick, and yes there is one, is that the ‘postname’ you redirect FROM has
   to be the same you redirect TO.
 * I use this a lot of the time when changing permalinks from domain.com/YYYY/MM/
   DD/postname to just domain.com/postname — or in my case, domain.com/YYYY/postname,
   since I think people like years). And WordPress is even extra cool because if
   I go to domain.com/postname it, on it’s own, will go ‘Oh you mean domain.com/
   YYYY/postname! Here you go!’
 *  [lonniea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lonniea/)
 * (@lonniea)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-this-permalink-structure-possible/#post-2457806)
 * yes… wow that is cool.

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