Apologies if this already exists but couldn't find it.

If I change the title of an existing node, it changes the URL alias to reflect new title and adds 301 redirect to old alias. It also sounds good but how can I stop automatic update of path aliases when I change titles.

There are couple of reasons:

  • With new path alias, all Facebook likes on existing node-path are lost
  • Not so good for SEO in the short term. Many pages disappear from Google with new path and rarely return back in rankings

    • Thanks for help in advance.

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Dave Reid
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Location Nebraska USA
CreditAttribution: Dave Reid commented
Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Your Facebook likes should be using the 'internal' URL of node/nid so that this situation doesn't happen.

To configure Pathauto to not ever 'update' aliases, go to admin/config/search/path/settings and set the 'Update action' setting to 'Do nothing. Leave the old alias intact.'

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.