As of now when we use Path redirect along with Pathauto and choose 'Create a new alias. Redirect from old alias' under 'Update action' it affects all title changes (assuming those titles are included in the alias). This may not be desirable in all use cases.

Example: A user creates a page with title 'what is up' and immediately edits the node title, changing the title to 'wassup' and saves the page again. As we have chosen 'Create a new alias. Redirect from old alias' the first alias will be automatically added to the redirect aliases list and .../what-is-up will from now on redirect to .../wassup.

Assuming that the redirect option is a part of good SEO practices the creation of redirect as mentioned above may not be necessary. So, can we have an option to create redirect only for nodes older than 3 days/ 1 week/ 2 weeks...depending on how frequently the site is crawled?

-thank you

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dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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My response from the same issue posted in path_redirect:

I don't understand why you wouldn't want this to happen and why you say it's not necessary. Say you have ping.module or some similar module enabled that performs an action when the node is first created (and therefore using the 'incorrect' URL). Then 15 seconds later when the user edits the node, the path has already changed. What if trackbacks were sent out with the 'incorrect' URL?

nirvanajyothi’s picture

nirvanajyothi commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Now at http://drupal.org/node/509478 .

osopolar’s picture

osopolar
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=> status should be "Closed (won't fix)" or is there a fix for that.

I am also interested for that as we only want redirects for SEO purposes if a path only existed for certain time (on day or even a few hours; i.e. due to typos in Title) we would prefer to not create an redirect. In case such a feature exists for current versions, please link it here.