Questions tagged [redirects]
A page, link or command that points URL requests to another URL in the world wide web. Redirects can be either server-side or client-side through the use of javascript.
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When an attribute value ends in a slash, can I omit the quotes? It looks confusing when the trailing slash is next to the closing angle bracket
I have been thinking about this case:
You want to use canonical on page A directing to example.com/:
<link rel=canonical href=example.com/>
If I wouldn't use quotation marks like that, could ...
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.htaccess clean url to GET variable with WordPress
I'm struggling to get a .htaccess rule to work. I'm trying to cleanup a URL for a WordPress site. Instead of /illustration?rid=123, I'd like /illustration/123.
I've tried solutions from many of the ...
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Redirect to remove everything after the second slash (first directory)
I'm trying to redirect a lot of pages on a website I own. There are a few pages indexed and I need to fix them for example:
/vloerafwerking/projecttapijt/raamafwerking/ needs to go to
/vloerafwerking/...
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Page URL Modifications and Google response [duplicate]
I need to change the address of one of the pages of my site.
I will create a new page with absolutely the same content and the same structure of the page (no changes to the content of the page at all, ...
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Redirect IP address to domain using .htaccess [duplicate]
I tried the following .htaccess code to redirect the IP address of my VPS server to my domain, but despite of all efforts it keeps resulting in a 404 error:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^...
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How to preserve ALL website's URLS when transferring to a new CMS as well hosting
I am in a position where I have to figure out how to preserve all of the website's pages URLS when transferring it to a new CMS, perhaps potentially Joomla (hasn't been decided yet). New hosting is ...
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Is HTTP to HTTPS redirect required even if site is only on HTTPS?
I have a new website and from day one, it was on HTTPS. For example:
https://www.example.com/
Do I still need to redirect HTTP to HTTPS to avoid content duplication? For example, should I still set ...
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Redirecting a user but not Googlebot to solve problem with iFrames in content
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To work around a problem with a third party documentation writing software I need to redirect a page to another page but only if a user in browser is looking at it. I want the google bot to see ...
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Firebase redirects http to https with 307 code (Temporarily Moved), which is bad as per SEO. How to configure it to use 301 code (Permanently Moved)
My website is hosted with Firebase. It offers https out of the box. When a user hits http://example.com, it redirects to https://example.com with 307 code (Temporarily Moved). As per various SEO ...
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how to redirect lower case to upercase
I have a WordPress blog and I made subfolder like this
https://example.com/Tourism
but when I open this URL with lowercase "t" it shows me 404 not found error:
https://example.com/tourism
this ...
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What is the most SEO friendly way to redirect the main domain to different subdirectories?
I have a multilingual website (English / Hungarian). I need to redirect my domain (mysite.hu) to subdirectories (/hu, /en), based on chosen user language preference (the default is Hungarian). For ...
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Website URL in YouTube 'about' page redirects to Spammy website
My wordpress website's URL that I added to my YouTube channel's 'About' page often redirects to some random spammy website.
Would this be happening only for me or do my channel visitors also face ...
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Redirecting /page/*/ to the home page in .htaccess
My problem is that my homepage exists on https://www.example.com/page/2/, /3/, /4/ and so on, it still exists on /1000/. Same duplicate page versions exists on /about and and /contact page of my site.
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What is the SEO impact of multiple redirects that return to the current page after setting a cookie?
We have a situation where we need to set a cookie on a user's session. In order to do this we currently have a series of redirects in place:
Initial request > 30x to get the cookie > 30xset the ...
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http to https redirect triggers “Duplicate without user-selected canonical”
For some reason, my Main URL (https://www.foxteller.com) cannot be indexed because of my domain redirects in the apache2 config.
My redirects go as follows:
http://foxteller.com/ > https://www....
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Redirecting a domain works on HTTP but not on HTTPS with IIS server
We built a site for a client to advertise a new block of apartments they had built. The apartments have now all been sold so we have been asked to forward the domain to another domain until there is ...
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Do non-existent 'category' pages in URLs present a problem for search engines?
Say for example if I have a news site and my URL structure is:
example.com/news/random-article
If there is no page at example.com/news/, in other words it results in a 404 error, is that problematic ...
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Redirect to website with parameters - namecheap
I'm struggling to redirect using the namecheap dashboard.
Specifically I want to redirect based parameter. So for example:
mywebsite.com/2345 would redirect to otherwebsite.com/query?=2345
Is this ...
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Redirect from www and http to https doesn't work on sub-domains
I am trying to redirect all www and non-https requests to the HTTPS only versions with Apache server. I don't need or want www or non SSL URLs at all. The issue is that with the 2 different snippets ...
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Yoast purge plugin caused crawl errors, getting more even after removing it
I'm using the Yoast SEO plugin on my WordPress site, and when you upload media to WordPress media library, it makes a copy of the image or file and creates a file path (this is normal).
However, all ...
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Community homepage: domain root redirect to subpage for logged-in users bad for SEO?
I run a community website. I plan to distinguish between guests (wich also contains search engines) and logged-in users for the domain root, because logged-in uses should see an overview of new ...
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301 redirect in the htaccess file issues
This is driving me crazy, can anybody tell me why this 301 redirect does not work. I just get a 404 error with the old /about page. Here is the code for info:
{ENV:WPR_SSL}.html%{ENV:WPR_ENC}" -f
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Should I redirect “ugly” URL to friendly URL?
I use mod_rewrite to rewrite https://example.com/?page=some-page&tab=2 to https://example.com/articles/some-page/2. But people can still access both URLs.
I want to know: should I redirect the "...
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Do follow link redirection
I am new to SEO and using WordPress. I got a do-follow back link from a website. The link's structure was /2018/03/03/abc/. After that I changed the permalink structure. So the link became /abc and ...
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My team wants to move news section of our website to subdomain [duplicate]
My team wants to move news section of our website to subdomain ex "news.website.com" does it affect SEO? Can anyone tell me pro and cons of this thing?
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Temporarily turn off redirects on all virtualhosts
Is there a configuration parameter I can set in the global configuration to disable redirects in all virtual hosts?
I've got a server with a bunch of virtual hosts with varying configurations, many ...
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When redirecting to another domain, to which domain will HSTS apply?
Assuming the following, what domain will be HSTS'ed for the next year, foo.com or bar.com? RTFM (RFC6797) doesn't help much.
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: foo.com
[ ... ]
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved ...
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LinkedIn & Slack ignore translated meta tags
Our website is a WordPress site with 2 different languages. Original is German and we use Weglot plugin for translation into English.
So the problem is that LinkedIn and Slack are picking the German ...
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Reasons to use a custom 404 page that redirects with code vs a 301 redirect?
We are moving a website from Joomla to Mura and some of the pages are going to be located at different URLs.
I can set up 301 redirects in the rules section of the web.config file in order to ...
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SEO when forward domain in global rank vs local region?
I have one .ir domain and google map services not works on .ir domains, I want to get .org domain and set SSL EV for this .org domain then forward .ir to .org domain. one web app is installed on this ...
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Wordpress regular expression redirect with redirect plugin
I need to redirect all traffic for a suspended site and what I have tried so far is installing the redirect plugin and adding a redirect (tools->redirection->add new
source: ^/(?!.*login.*|...
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.htaccess - redirect the contents of a subdirectory of old domain to new domain (WordPress) [duplicate]
I have problems with the redirection of my old website to our new website under a new domain. The old website was created with Wordpress and the simple redirect 301 was successful. However, some pages ...
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Does redirecting the client using the PHP header function always work in client's modern browsers?
I want to redirect users back to login page if they wrote the wrong password.
I usually use header(location: "login.php?msg=wrong password"); when they type the wrong password or something.
Does this ...
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If redirects for variations are in place, can I safely consolidate down to one Google Search Console property?
I am redirecting using .htaccess to always use www, always use HTTPS. At this point, can I remove the duplicate Google Search Console properties (non-www and http)?
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SEO: Is a redirect without using 301 but a PHP script, OK?
I've been reading about redirection, and how it can affect (or not if done properly) SEO.
I'm changing my website's content platform from Drupal to a PHP custom made code.
In my current site I have ...
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IIS 10 giving internal error when attempting to redirect to HTTPS
I've looked at innumerable resources on how to set up a HTTP to HTTPS Redirect, but still it doesn't seem to work. Using IIS10 and the URL Rewrite module, here are my steps:
I've generated a Self-...
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When I search for a 301 redirected domain Google shows a message from GoDaddy rather than following the 301 redirect
I have a domain name registered at Godaddy. I also have a website that I created at Google Sites. I forward the URL to go to the Google Site. I did this using the Godaddy Domain Manager Forwarding ...
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RewriteEngine .htaccess rules end up redirecting to example.net/https:/example.net
I'm starting to learn about the Apache .htaccess and I have some issues in my website...
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
RewriteCond %{...
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Installing WordPress with /wp path leads to redirect loop when index.html redirects to a shopping cart
So on my site, my shopping cart is located at example.com/zc2
I use this .htaccess file
RewriteEngine On
Redirect /index.html example.com/zc2/
So that anyone that lands on example.com will be ...
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How to identify the source of 301 redirect loop on a WordPress site when server side caching plugin is enabled? [closed]
Our WordPress site has developed a 301 redirect loop error when web-server caching is enabled. With server caching disabled and caching plugin installed and active the issue doesn't occur, but the ...
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What will happen to SEO if a blog has 100K attachment page redirects with 20k published articles?
Consider that there is an old blog, which has almost 10 or more images in every post they published. As everyone knows, WordPress creates an attachment link for every image we upload in a blog.
For ...
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Rewriting URL of WordPress in a Subdirectory
I am renting some webspace and a domain from BlueHost.com on which I run a WordPress site. Let's call it example.com. WordPress is installed in the root folder.
As I can run multiple sites on this ...
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How to redirect domain names which use my custom name servers?
My web hosting service allows setting custom name servers. For example, if my website is http://www.example.com/, I can set custom name servers ns1.example.com and ns2.example.com.
When other domain ...
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Htaccess redirect pages from subfolder to root directory while preserving any query string
I have moved pages in various sub directories to the root directory and want to set up a 301 redirect for each page and keep any query string that might be present. For example:
www.example.com/...
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Is it good for SEO to have domain alias that describes company service? [duplicate]
I have bought a domian that is like service.city.example
Where service is eg. "haircut".
Is it good to have this kind of domains as aliases to main domain company.example?
What would be best for SEO,...
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Pinging Domain doesn't give A Record IP
Should pinging a domain give you the IP the same as the A Record? Are there conditions where it shouldn't? A client's website isn't pointing to the A record IP, it's point to a Cloudflare DNS server. ...
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Download link expired, going back to software presentation page, what redirect method to use?
When someone (user or bot) reaches an old download link like /download/yellow-wallpaper.zip?key=some-expired-download-key , user is sent back to file details page, e.g /yellow-wallpaper.html, where ...
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How can I migrate a single page application to a site with many URLs for SEO?
I will be migrating a single page application (SPA) to a normal URL structured site.
Usually I would map the old URLs to the new URLs and use 301 redirects to the relevant URLs. In this case, that ...
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Point multiple domains to single page, with unique button based on source domain
I'm a software dev, but I'm green when it comes to web development and domain management.
Let's say I've registered some domains:
apples.example
bananas.example
cherries.example
...and [with a ...
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How to remove old domain that we don't have control over for branded searches that should only show our new site?
I changed my company website URL from www.tirnav.in to www.tirnav.com.
Google Webmaster had already indexed my earlier website i.e tirnav.in and now when i search google for Tirnav Solutions it still ...
