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- What Is a Redirect? 301 vs 302 and 404 Errors Explained
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“In this lesson we'll learn what happens when a web address changes, and how a simple redirect keeps your visitors and your search rankings from getting lost. When a page moves to a new address, a lot of things quietly stop working. Anyone who bookmarked the old page now lands on a dead end. Links other sites made to you break too, and those are hard-won.” Watch the full lesson →
- Install and Set Up the Redirection Plugin in WordPress
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“Every page on your site lives at its own web address. If you rename a page, tidy up a messy address, or reorganize your site, that old address stops working. Anyone who saved the old link now lands on a dead page-not-found screen. Search engines lose track of the page, and the ranking you earned can slip. And you rarely notice, because broken links fail quietly in the background.” Watch the full lesson →
- Create and Manage Redirects in WordPress
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“A redirect quietly sends an old web address to a new one, so nobody lands on a dead page. In this lesson you'll make one and watch it work. A redirect forwards an old address to a new destination automatically. Visitors and search engines both land on the right page instead of an error. You'll build one and then test it live, right in the browser.” Watch the full lesson →
- Fix Broken Links and 404 Errors with the Redirection Log
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“A four-oh-four is the not-found message a visitor sees when a web address points at nothing. For a real person, or for a search engine, each one is simply a dead end. Broken links frustrate the people who click them. And they waste the visits that search engines send your way.” Watch the full lesson →
- Import and Export Redirects and Tune Redirection Settings
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“Sooner or later you'll want to save a copy of your redirects, move a batch at once, or tidy the settings. Here's what we'll cover. One thought to keep in mind. The backup you never made is the one you'll wish you had. Export a plain spreadsheet, or a full backup file. Import many redirects from a single file. Understand the options that actually matter.” Watch the full lesson →
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This Redirection tutorial shows you how to keep visitors and search engines on track when a web address changes. A single broken link can cost you a reader and a chunk of ranking, and the free Redirection plugin fixes that with a proper 301 in seconds. In under half an hour you'll manage redirects and clean up 404s with confidence.
What you'll learn
URLs change all the time, when you rename a page, restructure a site, or move content, and every old link that now leads nowhere hurts both users and SEO. The Redirection WordPress plugin lets you point old addresses at new ones, watch for 404 errors automatically, and keep the whole map tidy. This course explains the difference between a 301 and a 404, when each matters, and how the plugin's monitoring saves you from hunting broken links by hand. After it you'll be able to run redirects on any site and stop losing traffic to dead ends.
Inside the course
- Why Redirects Matter: 301s and 404s
- Installing Redirection and the Setup Wizard
- Creating & Managing Redirects
- The 404 Workflow and Automatic Monitoring
- Import/Export, Options & Site Maintenance
Who this course is for
This is for beginners, bloggers and site owners who are changing URLs or cleaning up 404s and want it done right for SEO. No coding needed. Developers comfortable editing server config may not need a plugin, but Redirection is far friendlier for everyone else. Free written tutorials and live training are available too.
Frequently asked questions
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What's the difference between a 301 and a 404?
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