By default, wordpress automatically adds nofollow into all links added in a wordpress blog. The reason for this is to stop spammers having their wicked way and pulling in loads of traffic from your blog. But why have the nofollow in every link if the …

I guess good housekeeping from the start makes life much easier in the long run, ie set up permalinks at the start of blog / web site build.

PS Added your trackback Eric to my site

Many thanks for the great tips

I’ve considered using a more generic redirect with a regular expression to map ?p=## to something like /post/## and then using a plug-in like Dean’s Permalink Redirection Plugin to redirect /post/## to the desired URL structure, but I’m not sure of the SEO implications of multiple 301 redirects.

I suppose it would also be possible to get all of your indexed URLs from Google using a “site:” query and some XSLT and run the results through a script of some sort to change that into the apache redirect lines an prepend them to the .htaccess file. The script would have to be pretty complex though in order to map the numeric id to a WordPress page slug.

This begs to become a utility of some sort, but was a bit to complex of a solution for the 15 or so redirects I had to make. Sorry for the lack of a real solution, but maybe I can whip something up for a future post when I have a few spare minutes!