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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MediaWiki: Avoid multiple page redirects
I have an all default MediaWiki website: No added CSS/JS, No added extensions or custom PHP.
I run the homepage of that website in Google Pagespeed Insights and I get:
MediaWiki: Avoid multiple ...
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How to deal with IP redirection and Googlebot? [duplicate]
My client wants country-based domains for their customers. For example, all customers from UK will be taken to the .co.uk site, even if they visit the .com site. And same for other countries.
I have ...
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Why is Google giving me Page with Redirect error when trying to index the page?
I'm trying to index a landing page through the Google Search Console. The result I get is error Page with redirect: The URL is a redirect, and therefore was not added to the index. The error ...
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How do web servers identify the client's location
Many websites directs the user to specific subdomains or domains based on their location. For example, if a user based in the UK types yahoo.com, the user somehow redirected to uk.yahoo.com. If the ...
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Redirect to homepage based on server error code with htaccess
I just took over management of a small HTML website. I discovered the security on the website was almost non-existent because full directory browsing was possible.
I have since disabled directory ...
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Migrating out of Medium
I'm moving my company's blog out of Medium to a subdirectory of our domain name.
We have three blogs, one on a subdomain (when Medium still allowed it) and two as regular Medium organization blogs.
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Implement 2000 redirects in an SEO friendly way without slowing the site down [duplicate]
I currently have two e-commerce websites, a new one, built on WooCommerce with ~1700 products and an old one, custom built with ~2100 products.
I want to delete the old one and use it's domain and ...
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Redirect a Wordpress site to a non wordpress site with a different domain name and hosted in a different server
I have my old Wordpress site .
Now I have developed a new custom HTML site to and hosted it in another server with a different domain name. All the pages in the existing site is present in the new ...
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How to redirect from blog.example.org to example.com using htaccess
I have tried all means to do a 301 redirect from blog.example.org to https://www.example.com/post using .htaccess but the redirect doesn't seem to be working.
I'm using this code below;
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Show categories both on homepage and on categories page?
I'm creating a "directory" website that has many pages, each belongs to a category and a sub-category.
I have category pages that will list all the pages that belong to the categories.
Example:
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How to point a subdirectory URL of a static website to a Heroku app?
I have a static website, hosted on BlueHost and a React/Express app hosted on Heroku. I was wondering if it is possible to do something like this.
Access static site with: staticsite.com
Access ...
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How does CloudFlare Handle JS Redirects?
I need to implement a couple Javascript redirects using window.location on my site. This redirect fires in very specific circumstances and I don't want that redirect cached.
I found info about how ...
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How do I redirect a subdomain on Google domains to a URL with masking?
I bought a domain (on Google Domains) for a personal webpage and set it up to point to my github.io page
I also added a subdomain (say somefile.mydomain.example) and it now redirects to a Google ...
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Simple redirection with countdown [closed]
I would like to redirect visitors to my new website. I would like to show a page where there is a countdown "you will be directed to the new site by 4..5..3..2..1 seconds" but I would like the user to ...
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I have a page with two domains and I want to redirect one of the domains to a specific page via htaccess
I am using the domains ergonomi.example and fysiarbejdsliv.example
I want fysiarbejdsliv.example to redirect to https://fysiarbejdsliv.example/dansk-selskab-for-fysioterapi-i-arbejdsliv.
I have ...
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How can I redirect a Blogger blog to another blog
I have a blogger blog with its own domain (I'll call it www.example.com); that's to say: this site used to be a www.example.blogspot.com and I purchased a name domain later; I can continue to manage ...
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Redirect IP address to Domain Name in Amazon Web Services EC2
I have just set up a WordPress website using this tutorial. The site can be accessed via domain name as well as IP address. This doesn't look good and I would like the IP to direct to the domain name ...
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Squarespace removes UTM query variables when redirecting from non-www to www
I'm setting up some redirects for a client's blog, pointing the old URLs to their new Squarespace site.
Curiously, I noticed some of URL tracking variables were being stripped out during the redirect....
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Redirecting 404 pages to another active pages in .htaccess
I have one product page indexed on Google but that link does not exist anymore and hits 404 page.
What I want to do is to redirect that link in .htaccess to another product page since it ranks very ...
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Which redirect code to use for resolve resource?
On my website i have a list of items, each item has a link, the link has one parameter named "ID":
<a href="go?id=2">item</a>
When i generate the list i don't know the exact url to the ...
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How to redirect dynamically generated duplicate pages in .htaccess?
I have over 2000 dynamically generated duplicated pages like this:
https://www.example.com/subfolder/page1.html
and
https://www.example.com/subfolder/page1/
What i am trying to do is redirect all /...
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How to form redirect or rewrite where query string contains portion I want to extract to new query string
I've transferred an old custom-made site to Mediawiki and I have many internal and external links to my old pages that I want to redirect to the appropriate wiki page.
There are many links to the ...
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.htaccess: Redirect all HTTPS to a subdomain, but EXCLUDE one subdomain folder
In summary: (Notice the "https")
I have https://www.example.com
All need to be re-directed to https://sub.example.com
EXCEPT https://xyz.example.com/api
Here is my current .htaccess:
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How to detect what is causing a redirect?
I am working on a Wordpress website that has been hacked. Let's say that it's http://thewebsite.example. There is no malware that infects people that open this website, but there is a URL http://...
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Adding a subdirectory to a URL using .htaccess
I am trying to achieve the following:
This URL: www.example.com/wis/9-3/1998/0.general
Redirected to this URL: www.example.com/9440/wis/9-3/1998/0.general
So I'm trying to add this subdirectory to ...
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mod rewrite with two parameters and loading folder
I have domain example.com, when someone go to this domain, I need to automatically redirect to example.com/en/ and need /en/ to be a parameter of variable lang.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
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How would Google react if I redirected currently ranking landing pages to the home page?
I have some tag pages on my website which contain specific keywords. They appear in the Google search results for those keywords.
Those pages bring in a fair amount of traffic but the bounce rate is ...
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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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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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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?
