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  • EN1GMA
    Confirmed User
    • Nov 2005
    • 1252
    #1

    Need help with .htaccess and 301 Redirect

    Hi guys,

    I need some urgent help... maybe someone can help me!

    I have a wordpress website and the traffic was going fine!
    But since I removed something from my URLs, I received many notifications on webmaster tools about 404 errors and my traffic has dropped from 400 daily to only 30.

    My old url was:
    domain.com/reviews/post_title

    Now is:
    domain.com/post_title

    So what I did was removing the /reviews/ from the URL.

    I notice that in google search results, all urls that appears is without /reviews/ but my SEO guy said that is better to do a 301 redirect so I can recover my traffic back.

    I have read this advice from Matt Cutts:
    https://support.google.com/webmaster...er/93633?hl=en

    And he said that I need to fix this via htaccess right?
    I need to get all of the listed 404s in webmaster tools 301 redirected to the proper url so that I can mark all as fixed, right?

    Does anyone know the command to do that?
    Only need to redirect 404 urls to new working urls.

    From this:
    domain.com/reviews/post_title

    To this:
    domain.com/post_title

    Btw, this is my htaccess content:
    Code:
    # BEGIN WordPress<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>


# END WordPress
    Anyone? Please?

    Thank you!

    Best regards
    Tags: None
    • EN1GMA
      Confirmed User
      • Nov 2005
      • 1252
      #2
      I forgot to tell something about my old urls... all of them ends in a .php
      So the changes was:

      From this:
      domain.com/reviews/post_title.php

      To this:
      domain.com/post_title/

      Can someone help me?

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        • gracesfall
          Confirmed User
          • Sep 2013
          • 252
          #3
          How many posts are we talking about? If there aren't *that* many, you can redirect each individual post. Beneath # END WordPress in your .htaccess file, add something like the following:

          Code:
          # 301 Redirects

Redirect 301 /reviews/post_title http://domain.com/post_title/
Redirect 301 /reviews/post_title2 http://domain.com/post_title2/
Redirect 301 /reviews/post_title3 http://domain.com/post_title3/
Redirect 301 /reviews/post_title4 http://domain.com/post_title4/
          Make sense?

          Cheers,

          Cyndi
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            • Fetish Gimp
              Confirmed User
              • Feb 2005
              • 1699
              #4
              What you need is to use Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect (rewrite) requests for
              domain.com/reviews/(whatever)
              to
              domain.com/(whatever) and send the 301 status

              So you would add something like this on your .htaccess file

              Code:
              <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^reviews/(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
              Oops, didn't see the .php post issue until later. Code I posted wouldn't work under those circumstances.

              You might want to try this plugin
              http://wordpress.org/plugins/rewrite/
              Last edited by Fetish Gimp; 10-03-2013, 01:05 PM.
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                • gracesfall
                  Confirmed User
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 252
                  #5
                  BTW - the code I posted will work even with the .php file extension in the URL.
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                    • EN1GMA
                      Confirmed User
                      • Nov 2005
                      • 1252
                      #6
                      Thank you very much guys

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                        • Maqua
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                          • Jan 2001
                          • 2029
                          #7
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