404 Error Pages and Permalinks
I have been running this site for more than 3 years and still the Google Pagerank is 1 and there was not much monetization. From this year onwards (2011), I was concentrating my domain to improve in terms of 1. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) 2. Improving Back links 3. Brings more traffic. As a first step, I installed All in one SEO and Wordpress SEO by Yoast for improvising the SEO. Next, the permalinks (the links of my post) in the form of /%year%/%month%/%postname%.html (which I understood that this is one of the bad permalinks), so I changed my permalinks to one of the best (/%post_id%/%postname%) Because of this, there was another issue that, all my existing links with Google search will not fetch the correct webpages of mine. So i have done these things 1. Created the sitemap.xml again (using a plugin XML Sitemaps for Google ) and submitted to Google Webmasters 2. Wordpress handles the 301 redirection defaultly, (but the users of your website may not see the correct webpages t