As I'm working on my new blog, I sometimes change titles and with that usually the slug changes as well even though I try not to touch that. Recently I've seen a blog in which they use IDs followed by the slugname. Anything after the ID typed wrong automatically redirects to the correct slugname after it.
Was something like this: website.com/blog/456/awesome-blog
Going to website.com/blog/456/ redirected to website.com/blog/456/awesome-blog. This way in search results it still showed the keywords in the slug awesome-blog and I think it's now easier to change a slugname if needed.
What do you guys think? Is this good practise or overcomplicated? 😝
Sounds like a complete pain to try and manage those 301 redirects when changing the slugs. Also, wouldn't this dilute the value of the url in regards to SEO if you're adding extra /blog/ID...
The idea would be that anything after the id it would always redirect. Not sure about diluting the value of the url in regards to SEO. Maybe yes. I guess I'd better skip this idea and focus more on setting proper slugname right from the start.
