Manage redirections to provide visitors with an impeccable experience

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Redirect means to direct (someone or something) to a different place or by a different route, in technical terminology redirection is used when a page of a website or two web sites might merge or the entire site has been moved to a new location and you want your visitors to be able to find your site as they hit old link or type old address of your site which has been moved to a new location, and if you want when any user types your-site-name.com (without www) he should be redirected to www.your-site-name.com (with www) automatically then use redirection, it will also resolve the issue of duplicate version, and there are two types of redirection or two methods by which we can redirect a page or entire site to a new location, one is 301 redirection and second is 302 redirection, we use 301 redirection method when a page or entire site is moved permanently to a new location, and we use 302 redirection method when a page or domain is moved temporarily to a new location, if you don’t use redirection when your site or any page of your website has been moved to new location so the visitors have to face 404 page not found error and they will be annoyed and move to another website and you will lose your site traffic and page rank as well.

Here is a WordPress Redirection plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, this is particularly useful if you are moving pages from an old website to new one, or are changing the directory of your WordPress installation.

Click hereto download WordPress Redirection Plugin. Open your WordPress admin panel & click on Plugin menu & then hit Add New option, Upload & browse the zip file & install it.

3.  Click on Activate Plugin option.

4. Source URL – this  is the actual URL that you want to redirect, match –chose the type to match the source URL, action – determines what happens if the URL is matched, regular expression – means that the source URL is a regular expression , target URL – most actions have a target URL, this is typically the URL that the user will be redirected to should the pattern match.

5. In groups we create more then one redirections,  we can create as many groups as we want, and groups can be re-ordered. URLs are matched based not only on the order in which they occur within a group, but the order in which groups occur within a module.

6. Apache module uses .htaccessfile where you can create your own custom commands by way of regular expression to make it more flexible, Apache module provides no statistical information so it is not possible for the Redirection plugin to keep track of how many times a particular redirection has been used.

Canonical – determine whether the wwwshould be removed or added to your site URL, strip index – if enabled then any attempt to access a index.php, index.html, file will cause an automatic redirection to the same URL, minus the index file, time Limit – sets a site-wide PHP timeout limit, error level – sets the PHP error reporting level. Useful for removing unwanted warnings, or for viewing hidden ones, location – the location of the .htaccess file, the default will be your site directory, ban IPs – prevents certain IPs from accessing your site, allow IPs – allow certain IPs to access your site, raw .htaccess – add custom rules, site URL – an advanced option which allows you to set the site base URL

7. This is the log section where you can view errors which have been occurred during redirection.

8. This is the section where you can customize redirection settings as per your need.

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WordPress Redirection 2.2.13 Plugin has been developed by John Godley, there are more useful features which you can avail by making a donation, this is a very useful tool to manage the redirection to avoid negative effects  when any thing of your site has been moved to a new location and you want your visitors to be able to find your site without the experience of any undesired error.

Thank for reading the tutorial.

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I am an SEO & SMO Strategist, i love to make tutorials whenever I learn something new I deliver it to people in form of tutorials, because if you are trying to teach someone something it means you are mastering in it.

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