Fig 3 – Safe Redirect Manager<\/p><\/div>\n
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In Fig 3 you can see how to access ‘Safe Redirect Manager’ from the left-hand menu.<\/p>\n
And when you are in the section, you can then click the [Create Redirect Rule]<\/strong> button at the top. You’ll then see the following page:<\/p>\nFig 4 – adding a new redirect rule<\/em><\/p><\/div>\nWhen adding a new redirect rule, the key fields are:<\/p>\n
\nRedirect From<\/strong> \nThis is the path of the page you are redirecting from<\/li>\nRedirect To<\/strong> \nThis is the path of the page you are redirecting to<\/li>\nHTTP Status Code<\/strong> \nThis is the type of redirect (you’ll typically only use the one I mention down below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nLet’s now fill those fields based on our ‘pay as you go<\/em>‘ example:<\/p>\nFig 5 – the \/pay-as-you-go\/ redirect rules<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
Notice with Redirect From<\/strong> and Redirect To<\/strong> you need to put the path<\/em> in. The path is just the bit after your domain name (include the slashes “\/”).<\/p>\nIf you have permanently changed your URL, then HTTP Status Code<\/strong> will need to be set to ‘301 Moved Permanently<\/em>‘ (perhaps I’ll mention other use cases in a future post but for 99% of the time, you’ll need to use this HTTP Status Code).<\/p>\nAfter that, just click [UPDATE] to save your changes and make your redirect live.<\/p>\n
You should also now test your redirect to make sure it all works: i.e. try putting the old URL in the browser and you should see it click over to your new URL. If it does not, you may need to go back and re-check your steps.<\/p>\n
Update<\/h2>\n So it was a few weeks ago that we changed the URL for our ‘pay as you go’ page and put the redirect in place; as you see from the screenshot below, Google has now noticed the change and have updated their SERPS listing accordingly.<\/p>\n
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The End<\/h2>\n Hopefully that helps – if you have any comments or questions, feel free to jump over to our free Facebook Group<\/a> (where we also run a regular Facebook Live events.<\/p>\nCredit: the photo used in the featured image is by ED259<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes with our WordPress sites, we need to either delete pages (or posts), or change their URL (i.e. their unique page address – sometimes referred to as a permalink). We typically need to do this if […] Read more <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[156,103,56],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRedirecting in WordPress • Glass Mountains<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n