Site Redirect Question – To Non-WordPress Site / URL

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 27, 2016 at 6:35 am

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  I have a standard WordPress site here – we are moving the content to another host.

  I have a question about the Site Redirect – will it handle a target of this?

  https://www.mountaineers.org/about/branches-committees/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-sailing-committee

  We don’t care and will not try and match the posts to specific new entries – we just want any search engine traffic to end up at the new site, no 404 errors and to train the search engines that we have moved

  Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 27, 2016 at 6:58 pm

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  Hi @auxclass, basically the redirect upgrade will redirect all links on the old domain to the same link on the new domain (or to the same domain + subdirectory). If you’re changing your link structure at the new host, you’ll want to use .htaccess & mod_rewrite rules (or whatever your host supports along those lines) to redirect your WordPress permalinks to the links on the new site.

  More info here:

  Site Redirect

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 27, 2016 at 7:59 pm

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  @supernovia – thanks & thanks for the link – I don’t have access to any redirect options on the new site – but as long as all the redirects all go to the same place it will be fine – we are not going to try and replicate the WordPress site on the new target – as long as the Site Redirect dumps everyone on the opening page (which is the link I gave above) things will be good –

  just did not want to slam the door in the face of anyone coming from a search engine

  sounds like the Site Redirect will do what I need – it was the funny target URL that I was concerned about – I have printed out the instructions to study

  thanks again

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 27, 2016 at 9:25 pm

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  @auxclass, to clarify, are you hoping to send everyone straight to https://www.mountaineers.org/about/branches-committees/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-sailing-committee no matter what old-name link they clicked on?

  Or are you going to install WordPress or otherwise duplicate the directory structure of the old site within https://www.mountaineers.org/about/branches-committees/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-sailing-committee ?

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 27, 2016 at 9:38 pm

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  are you hoping to send everyone straight to https://www.mountaineers.org/about/branches-committees/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-sailing-committee no matter what old-name link they clicked on?

  yes that is what I want to do

  I lost the argument to use WordPress software a couple of years back – the directory structure can’t be duplicated

  Thanks

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 28, 2016 at 4:11 am

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  Okay. The redirect would send folks to urls like this:

  https://www.mountaineers.org/about/branches-committees/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-sailing-committee/2014/02/11/racing-the-wind-with-the-mountaineers/

  That would probably not be ideal. Since none of the links would work anyway, you might consider making all of the content on mtnsailing.wordpress.com private, with a front page that tells folks to go to the new site.

  Or, like I say, if you can get help with redirects on that server as well, you could use our site redirect AND theirs, then probably find a way to either send folks straight back to https://www.mountaineers.org/about/branches-committees/seattle-branch/committees/seattle-sailing-committee/ or along to whatever link you choose.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 28, 2016 at 6:39 am

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  Thanks much – might just go the private route with a single “We have moved” Post

  I will also send a link to this thread and see if I can get the web people to look at it and see what they can do or what kind of help they can offer

  the base site searches well and the blank link searches well for some search terms (the sailing chair did some testing) – so maybe we won’t loose much no matter what we decide to do

  thanks much for the help

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 28, 2016 at 2:46 pm

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  Another option would be to clear the content from each Post and Page – but leave the title and link in place and replace the content with a “we have moved” link – –

  also clear the Tags and categories from the Posts – also clear captions from the pictures – that leaves the pictures in place but turns off the indexing

  that would not break links but since the content is gone – the natural updating should push the old Posts etc way down since there is nothing left to index

  thanks

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 28, 2016 at 9:03 pm

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  @auxclass that would work too.

  If I were in your shoes, I would do our redirect + redirects on that end first (301 for the win). If that’s not an option, your method would work well.

  Good luck!

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 28, 2016 at 10:23 pm

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  Thanks

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  supernovia · Staff · Jan 29, 2016 at 12:04 am

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  Cheers :)

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