WordPress SEO Premium - The Redirect Manager

Key Takeaways

[Music] the WordPress SEO premium plug-in includes a simple interface for creating and managing redirects for your site simply enter the old URL the original web address you wish to redirect and then the new URL where you want folks to actually wind up next choose a redirect type which lets the browser know whether this change is temporary or permanent use a 301 redirect for Pages you want to redirect Forever This is best for old URLs that simply don't exist anymore the old URL will eventually be removed from the index in search engines a 302 redirect is useful when you would like to temporarily redirect to another page you're telling the search engine that the page still exists and should be indexed but the visitor should be redirected to another page for now and a 307 redirect is useful when you would like to redirect for a short per perod of time the most important difference here is that the specific page is coming online again soon and last a 410 redirect indicates this URL does not exist anymore and there is no forwarding address when you're finished simply click the add redirect button to save this redirect a list of previously created redirects appears at the bottom and you can edit or delete these at any time regular expression read redirects work in the same way as url-based redirects but they're used to match patterns or multiple sources rather than individual URLs regex redirects are incredibly powerful but they also require very specific knowledge of special characters and wild cards that can be used to form search patterns for example I'll enter a simple pattern here that will redirect every URL in our site that ends with / feed to the root URL of our site for more information about regular Expressions you can visit our knowledge base at any time finally under the settings tab you can choose to disable PHP redirects and write all these redirects to the HT access file instead or you could choose to create a separate file containing all your redirects which you can then include in your web server config files this can be faster particularly if you have a lot of redirects but requires a few extra steps outside of the WordPress SEO plugin either way you choose this additional functionality will make it much easier to manage your redirects in a familiar interface within the WordPress SEO premium plug-in [Music]