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Hi folks. I was wondering if there’s anything else I need to do besides just changing the title?
I changed a title about a week ago and submitted for indexing. After a few days my analytics showed traffic under the new title but as recently as yesterday my search console shows clicks under both titles and I’m not sure how or why. I don’t think I have any internal links to this post either.
Do I need a redirect just in case? Thanks.
Did you change the post slug when you changed the title? When I read your message, it sounded like you only changed the title.
Changing the title in WordPress does not automatically change the URL.
If you do change the URL you should do a 301 redirect to ensure the old URL goes to the new article and the 301 instructs google to use the new url.
I recommend the free Redirect plugin that does this automatically is quite light weight.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/#description