Redirection: WordPress Plugin Tutorial

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 about eighteen minutes 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.

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