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Heyy good morning everyone 😁As I'm working on

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The community member is working on a new blog and sometimes changes the post titles, which also changes the slugs. They recently saw a blog that used IDs followed by the slug name, where anything after the ID would automatically redirect to the correct slug name. The community member wonders if this is a good practice or overcomplicated.

The comments suggest that managing the 301 redirects when changing slugs could be a pain, and that this approach may dilute the SEO value of the URL. Some community members say that this practice was common in the past but is not recommended by SEO experts, though the reasons are unclear. Overall, the consensus seems to be that the community member should focus on setting the proper slug name from the start, rather than relying on redirects.

Heyy good morning everyone 😁

As I'm working on my new blog, I sometimes change titles and with that usually the slug changes as well even though I try not to touch that. Recently I've seen a blog in which they use IDs followed by the slugname. Anything after the ID typed wrong automatically redirects to the correct slugname after it.

Was something like this:
website.com/blog/456/awesome-blog

Going to website.com/blog/456/ redirected to website.com/blog/456/awesome-blog.
This way in search results it still showed the keywords in the slug awesome-blog and I think it's now easier to change a slugname if needed.

What do you guys think? Is this good practise or overcomplicated? 😝
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Sounds like a complete pain to try and manage those 301 redirects when changing the slugs. Also, wouldn't this dilute the value of the url in regards to SEO if you're adding extra /blog/ID...
The idea would be that anything after the id it would always redirect. Not sure about diluting the value of the url in regards to SEO. Maybe yes.
I guess I'd better skip this idea and focus more on setting proper slugname right from the start.
back in the day people did this, apparently doing it is not recommended by seo experts, but I have no idea why
SEO experts are sometimes like magician, they know stuff that's generally not written anywhere and may change any time, maybe true, maybe not true
haha thanks. Yeah sometimes it's so many suggestions what to do and avoid without really explaining why
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