Redirecting to new slug

[Timbow]

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?

[shawn_a]

you would need a 301 redirect in your htaccess.
This would make a pretty neat plugin though

[Carlos]

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)

[Timbow]

[...]
This would make a pretty neat plugin though

Progress through my teach-yourself php course is painfully slow. Don't hold your breath.

[marrco]

If you're using NGINX:

# this redirects a deleted page
location /old-slug-now-deleted { rewrite ^ http://www.mysite.com/new-slug/ permanent; }