WordPress Redirect Plugin can remove legacy 404 errors

Posted on 14. Dec, 2010 by in WordPress

If you do a lot of WordPress “makeovers” like me, you’ll find a lot of legacy Google search results from the original platform. Pages with .php extensions or old WordPress slugs will direct the user to a 404 page by default. This is obviously not the best solution for your SEO strategy nor for getting your searchers to the correct page. I use a great WordPress plugin by Urban Giraffe called Redirection which provides a tool for entering source (old) and target (new) URL’s and then gives it a 301 redirect. It’s almost magical. Say your old about page permalink was www.yourdomain.com/about.php and your new WordPress permalink is www.yourdomain.com/about/. Just add /about.php to the source URL and /about/ to your Target URL, click “Add Redirection”, and just like magic, the 301 redirect is live. The old search result takes you to the proper page.

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