: Previously submitted my sitemap but now I changed most of my pages URLs, what should i do? I had previously submitted my websites sitemap to google search console. It submitted all my pages
I had previously submitted my websites sitemap to google search console. It submitted all my pages and indexed most of them. However, recently I have changed most of my pages URLs due to SEO. Since I changed most of the URLs, I thought it might have helped to go back into Google search console and resubmit my sitemap and I did. Is there anything I can / should do so that Google knows I only changed the URL of my pages?
I typed into Google "site:mywebsite.com" and most of my pages are indexed and I see them but they have the old URL from when I submitted my sitemap and once you click on one of the pages, of course, the page can not be found because I changed the URL. Also, I'm not using the old URL anymore, I kept the same page but just changed the URL.
Thank you
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Follow this process step by step.
1] Make list of all the pages that you have changed recently. Submit this pages in the webmaster tool for removal from Google search.
Login Webmaster > Google Index > Remove URLs > Temporarily hide > Submit all the urls one by one.
2] Add 301 redirect to all the pages.
Once done wait for the day to see the result. First step will remove all your pages from Google search and 301 redirect will tell google to move the authority of existing pages to new pages.
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