Google status after changing link structure

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Hello friends

As you know, many of us use the once-popular /%postname%.html URL structure on our WordPress sites.

What I want to ask is this: If I change this link structure to /%postname%-%postid% and transition to the new link structure with a 301 redirect, what kind of issues might I face with Google?

The reason for changing this link structure is primarily because I cannot use this /%postname%.html structure on the Nginx infrastructure (the .htaccess structure cannot be transferred to Nginx in this way). Another reason is that I will be registering my sites for Google News, so I need to move away from this link structure and ensure that post IDs are included within the link.

Another factor is that I have grown tired of the .html link structure.

How can I overcome such a situation with minimal loss? I await your opinions…

2

If you redirect the old HTML pages to the new URLs using 301 redirects, there won’t be any issues. I did it in the past and didn’t experience any problems.

3

You have already mentioned 301; in my opinion, that will be the safest option. Back in the day, I changed the structure without doing anything, and I can say I experienced a massive drop.

4

I’m going to implement 301 redirects for the old post structure. Let’s see if there are any issues, hopefully not, but it really annoys me that we can’t use Nginx for this URL structure.

5

I couldn’t manage to get the redirection working in Nginx somehow; it says there are too many redirects. As for the code, it is

location ~ ^/([^/]+).html$ {
rewrite ^(.*)$ https://mertcangokgoz.com/$1 redirect;
}

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I think there was a plugin called Permalink Finder, it redirects old ones to new ones.