Redirects
Old addresses, hits and pages not found
When you rename or move a page, or take a site over from an old system, the old addresses keep arriving from search engines and bookmarks. Redirects send them on to the new page so that visitors do not end up on a 404 error.
The screens in this chapter come from the VMHub demo, where you can look around yourself.
The redirects list
Redirects in the left panel lists the site's redirects: the source address, the target, the code (301 permanent, 302 temporary), the language and how many visitors used it. Make selected redirects permanent or temporary at once, or move them to the trash.
A new redirect
Add redirect asks for the old path and the target. Start typing a page title in the target and pick the page — the redirect then follows the page even if its address changes later. For a redirect that applies to every language, pick All languages.
Pages not found
The Not found button shows the addresses visitors asked for in vain, by the number of attempts. Click + next to a frequent one to turn it into a redirect straight away.
Permanent or temporary
Use a permanent redirect (301) when a page has moved for good: search engines remember the new address and carry its ranking over. A temporary one (302) suits a short time, while a page is being reworked, say.
Each redirect belongs to one site, so two sites can send the same old address to different places.
