I see that if the name of a product is changed in my Magento V 1.9.2.2 shop, links from google are giving 404's for the url's with the old name instead of redirecting to the new page and getting a 301.
I know I can manually add the redirect in the URL Rewrite Maintenance section and that does work but I'm wondering if that is how Magento works or if I am missing something? If it is how it works, it seems a big oversight on Magento's part.
Is there a known fix for this or maybe some setting I have to change? Or do I need to enter such changes in manually each time?
For create new URL Rewrite magento have Catalog URL Rewrites indexing. So when you did Catalog URL Rewrites indexing then all the URL generate properly. Have you try to indexing? Also check its on ready state or not.