i've a small website(with few of pages-- max 20) on asp running on windows server since last 3 years with a lot of traffic and all the pages are indexed and ranked high by google and other search engines, but now i decided to convert my existing asp website to wordpress on that same domain and host.i'll request the godaddy to change my hosting server from windows to linux, and that i'll install wordpress there and i'll recreate all 20 pages there, but the matter is that i'll lose my all traffic.is there anyway to redirect those asp indexed links to my new wordpress posts?
any kind of help will be appreciated-- Thanks in advance :)
You can use 301 redirect to redirect all your old asp urls to the new wordpress urls using htaccess.
http://ndesign-studio.com/blog/301-htaccess-redirect
You have only 20 pages so it would be easy for you to do it manually i think. Thanks
I found the following plugins to easily manage 301 redirects. Please use any of the one given below.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/screenshots/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/screenshots/
You just need to put the old asp url without the domain name and the new wordpess url with domain name. Thanks
Keeping the existing SE rankings must be the top priority and for that you have no other option but use 301 redirect.
It's good to know how 301 redirect works; so this article may be useful;
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/WordPress-301-Redirect-Tips-and-Techniques/
Since you will be porting your site into wordpress, it makes a lot of sense to use a known plug in for this particular task.
As always, download a known/rated/trustworthy/uptodate plug in.
Here is one that fits the bill, for you.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/
HTH
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I have migrated a website, and now having issues with users that have saved certain pages and pdfs as bookmarks and are now getting broken link errors. I need the links to go to the same areas on the new site.
I assume it will be some type of code needed to be added to the .htaccess.
Here is an example:
Old URL: "www.oldsite.co.nz/things/stuff/thisisapdf.pdf"
Needs to go to
New URL: "www.newsite.co.nz/files/thisisapdf.pdf"
Your help will be much appreciated
I think there are two ways you can go about this using plugins.
1) https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/
- This is great when migrating or moving sites, as it automatically can repoint the urls for you when you reupload.
or 2) https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
- This will allow you to change the urls on a case by case basis. This is recommended if you don't have too many broken links.
I have a domain (ex. test.com) on which wordpress is installed. I also have a another wordpress installed on a subdomain(ex. test.com/blabla). Blabla contains many indexed pages but now I want to remove them completely and delete the wordpress on the blabla subdomain.
How can I achieve that? Keep in mind that I don't want anything to change in test.com
I would really appreciate your help,
Thank you in advance.
The .htaccess file can help you to achieve that. Please invest some time to dive into that.
You have to use the
Redirect 301
for your subdomain to redirect to the new page or any other page if you want to.
Make sure, that your robots.txt allows Google to access the old page directory.
When Google is able to track that the old page has been removed, it will no longer appear as search result.
Then you no longer need to rediect.
I'm new to the web world and i have a great mess in my head.
i got a project to build a website for a company and i did.
now this website was built with some cms and i built it with Wordpress.
So now i have to take care that some of the SEO meta tags will not ruin when moving to the new website, i used YOAST SEO plugin to do so.
Now my boss is keeping on asking about redirect 301 which i don't understand why do i need to use it?
if we dont transfer any campaigns and only moving to a new website why do i need it?
another problem is the mails on the domain.
the company has like 5 mails on the domain adress and the domain is sitting on the old company they used to work with,which are not cooperative.
how do i transfer the mails from their servers to a new one?
Thanks a lot.
The 301 redirects are for the newly created Url's.
Because every site has their own way or wwriting url's you need to make sure that you carry across the links to the old urls to the new url structure of the wordpress site.
Example
sitename.com/about_us.html is now sitename.com/about-us/ you will then need to redirect the old about_us url to the new one.
This ensures that any old indexed or shared pages don't server a page not found error.
Very important and can be done using the HTACCESS file or a redirect plugin.
I have a WordPress site. which is now moving to asp.net cms (Sitefinity). In this process my url structures are getting changed but I want to keep the traffic of previous urls on the new urls as well.
Old as the domain will be transferred to new site old pages will not be found (404)
Things making it complicated.
Old and new site has lots of Dynamic urls
Old site has different urls structure than new url
I do not wan't to put all these urls in web.config file.
Solutions I tried
I tried to write 301 redirect on Robot.txt as I can capture old and new url at the time of migration
I searched for solutions all over net but didn't got any straight forward solutions
One of the forums mentioned that we should not write 301 redirects on Robot.txt
Don't know what to follow or where to search. Please guide me to correct path.
Thank You
Chandresh
If you have an identifiable pattern between the two using the URL rewrite module would be your best bet. Or write some code to insert the old urls as multiple URLs on the content items.
Do you have an example of the old URL and what the new URL will look like? It is possible that if you know how the URL pattern will change you can create a redirect rule in your web.config.
Also, Sitefinity allows you to create redirects as well. This includes creating alternative urls for pages or creating redirecting pages.
The exact solution really depends on how much the URL is changing and how many redirect urls are needed.
I would like to migrate a site, but the new URL's are completely different from the old URL's. I do not want to break my old sites links that are out there on the web. Is there a way to extract all the links from a site so I can generate a redirect table (I will probably put the redirects on the web server level)? The old is on ASP.NET with SQL server 2008 by the way. Am open to crawling the site or mining the SQL database, but need some help or advice.
You could use IIS Seo Optimalization Toolkit for that. http://www.iis.net/download/seotoolkit
With that tool you can spider the entire website. Then when the report finishes, go to Content -> Host summary and double click the host of the website. There you have a complete list of all spedered URL's.
And ofcourse, when you have these url's, you can make URL rewrite of routing mechanisms available to 301 to the right content on the new website.
The best way is to actually put a 301 redirect to notify all engines that your URL's have permanently moved Search for 301 in this http response code documentation for more info on 301. That is if I am understanding your problem (that you want links from other sites and searches and whatnot to realize that your site moved?).
It doesn't sound like you're running Apache. However, Apache has an available module called mod_rewrite. There may be a similar module for other web servers.
mod_rewrite allows you to do exactly what you are describing.
Perhaps with litle js magic if works for you