Hi, I've just created a site that overwrites an old wordpress site - they want to maintain their Google ranking. Can I use a 301 redirect within the web.config file to ensure this is maintained? I've had a look at some of the options here and was a bit confused - is there a consistent way of doing it?
Perhaps you should have a look at the 301 Url Tracker with this package you have different option for create 301 redirects:
The Url Tracker is used to manage URLs within umbraco. It automatically tracks URL changes, for instance when a node is renamed, and makes sure the old URL will redirect to the new location.
This is great for SEO and great for people visiting your website via this old URL. Search engines will update the indexed URL and people won't visit the old, broken URL.
You can also create your own redirects, based on a simple URL or using a
Regex pattern. You can redirect to an existing node or a manually entered URL. This is great for migrating existing indexed URLs to your new website!
Shameless plug :) But if you want to import all the old redirects you can use SEOChecker maybe? Comes with an import option, but all depends on the size of the site a few records make no sense but 100's or 1000's can be added easily using the import.
301 Redirect
Hi, I've just created a site that overwrites an old wordpress site - they want to maintain their Google ranking. Can I use a 301 redirect within the web.config file to ensure this is maintained? I've had a look at some of the options here and was a bit confused - is there a consistent way of doing it?
Thanks in advance.
Darren
Hi Darren,
Perhaps you should have a look at the 301 Url Tracker with this package you have different option for create 301 redirects:
The Url Tracker is used to manage URLs within umbraco. It automatically tracks URL changes, for instance when a node is renamed, and makes sure the old URL will redirect to the new location.
This is great for SEO and great for people visiting your website via this old URL. Search engines will update the indexed URL and people won't visit the old, broken URL.
You can also create your own redirects, based on a simple URL or using a Regex pattern. You can redirect to an existing node or a manually entered URL. This is great for migrating existing indexed URLs to your new website!
You can find the package here: https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/301-url-tracker
Hope this can help you to archive what you want.
/Dennis
Hi Dennis,
is this package suppose to work with old .aspx pages?
The UI does not seem to allow me to add .aspx pages?
Any ideas about this?
Thanks
Hi Damon,
Which exact version of Umbraco CMS are you using?
/Dennis
Hi Dennis,
Version 7.2.4.
I found out that it acutally works even though the .aspx is taken off the end of the link.
IT seems .aspx pages are redirected to the near routed page
for example /test.aspx goes to /test
This may be some IIS setting. Anyway tis working,
Thanks
This is indeed exactly why I built the Url Tracker ;-)
Thanks guys - will give this a try!
Hi Darren,
Shameless plug :) But if you want to import all the old redirects you can use SEOChecker maybe? Comes with an import option, but all depends on the size of the site a few records make no sense but 100's or 1000's can be added easily using the import.
http://soetemansoftware.nl/seo-checker
Best,
Richard
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