Redirection

Posted by Ellis Benus18/04/2012 0 Comments

Download Redirection: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

Redirection is a WordPress plugin which gives the user a very handy interface for easily creating redirection rules and keeping track of 404 errors – Page not Found – without requiring advanced knowledge.

It is very important to prevent 404 Errors from occurring on your website.

The reason it’s important is because if a Search Engine has found a page, image or other item on your website and the location changes and the Search Engine isn’t redirected to a new location then it simply deletes that entry from it’s records.

If a person has bookmarked a URL on your website, or if someone created a link to a location on your site, and you change the location, then that link breaks and people trying to find your site no longer can.

404 Errors happen when you:

Delete a page/post/image from your website
Update your website and move content from one URL structure to another
For Example:
old website = http://domain.com/pages/about.html
new website = http://domain.com/About

Redirect gives a really user friendly interface for tracking and fixing this on your website.