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Redirecting to new slug - Timbow - 2014-05-09
I don't know if this is a GetSimple Question.
Say I have a page domain.com/about or domain.com/blog . For SEO purposes I decide to change the slug and url to something more descriptive, domain.com/about-the-best-business-in-the-area . Now all my external incoming backlinks which I have been building up all year are broken.
Is there a simple way to redirect from the old slug to the new? without confusing the googlebot?
RE: Redirecting to new slug - shawn_a - 2014-05-09
you would need a 301 redirect in your htaccess.
This would make a pretty neat plugin though
RE: Redirecting to new slug - Carlos - 2014-05-09
There's this plugin http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/uri-redirect/150/
but I never managed to get it to work.
I made this simple one http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/redirect/688/
but maybe it's not what you want, as it requires that a page with the old slug exists (and you may not like to keep it in your pages list)
RE: Redirecting to new slug - Timbow - 2014-05-10
(2014-05-09, 23:00:07)shawn_a Wrote: [...]
This would make a pretty neat plugin though
Progress through my teach-yourself php course is painfully slow. Don't hold your breath.
RE: Redirecting to new slug - marrco - 2014-05-12
If you're using NGINX:
# this redirects a deleted page
location /old-slug-now-deleted { rewrite ^ http://www.mysite.com/new-slug/ permanent; }