Does WordPress has a built in redirection enginge?

  • fred6633

    (@fred6633)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    Today I discovered that WordPress redirects pages without a redirect rule. Say that I have page “mypage/slug1”. If I enter “mypage/whatever/slug1”, it gets redirected to “mypage/slug1”.

    This behaviour is very good since with my former CMS the url was “mypage/whatever/slug1”. Everyone who has bookmarked these old url:s come right without I have to anything.

    I still wonder if it is good SEO practice to manually redirect “/whatever/slug1” to “/slug1”?

    Fred

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  • a2hostingrj

    (@a2hostingrj)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    I still wonder if it is good SEO practice to manually redirect “/whatever/slug1” to “/slug1”?

    When executed correctly, you can change, remove, or even combine URLs and not only prevent a drop in rankings but actually gain traffic from organic search. If you just show “Not Found” pages, your ranking will get hurt.

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