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How to do a 301 Redirect of an old backlink

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  • March 17, 2014 at 5:21 pm #95393
    sportydave
    Participant

    Hi,

    I have a backlink on a valuable site belonging to someone else that is pointing to a post that no longer exists on my site. The backlink is http://malleeblue.com/gtasks/

    My site is http://www.malleeblue.com

    I want people who click on that old link (over which I have no control) and be redirected to http://www.malleeblue.com/1st-page-google-optimization-tips/

    I tried creating a post with/gtasks and adding my redirect url in the 301 space in Genesis post editing area but it does not work.

    How can I get it to work using the post edit page canonical or 301 redirect options?

    Thanks.

    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    March 17, 2014 at 10:35 pm #95410
    Anita
    Keymaster

    Ask your hosting company to do it for you. Godaddy and Hostgator have done this for me before.

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    March 17, 2014 at 11:23 pm #95414
    sportydave
    Participant

    Thanks, anitac. I was hoping to be able to control it from within the post edit page which has options for redirects.

    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    March 18, 2014 at 9:12 am #95493
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Try this http://wpsites.net/wordpress-admin/301-redirect-in-functions-file/

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    March 18, 2014 at 9:43 am #95498
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Or this http://wpsites.net/wordpress-tips/redirect-404-page-not-found-to-any-url/

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    March 18, 2014 at 10:55 am #95509
    markmelch
    Member

    You could also use htaccess to redirect. I'm curious why your post redirect is not working. Does it have something to do with your permalink structure?

    March 18, 2014 at 3:16 pm #95557
    sportydave
    Participant

    Mark,

    Not sure. My permalinks are simply custom /%postname%/

    The only difference with the link which points to my site is that it does not appear to contain www.

    Interestingly, when I create a page for http://www.malleeblue.com/gtasks/, instead of a post, it does work - but the sidebars of the blog disappear.

    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    March 18, 2014 at 6:33 pm #95581
    markmelch
    Member

    Not sure. My permalinks are simply custom /%postname%/

    Do you have a category named gtasks?

    Interestingly, when I create a page for http://www.malleeblue.com/gtasks/, instead of a post, it does work – but the sidebars of the blog disappear.

    Did you look at the Genesis Layout settings for that page?

    March 18, 2014 at 9:15 pm #95594
    sportydave
    Participant

    Hi Mark, No category by the name and yes, I looked at my settings. I have been able to get it to work if I use a WP page instead of Post. Perhaps this is becuase the place I want it to land is also a page and not a post?

    Kind Regards,
    David Trounce

    March 18, 2014 at 10:44 pm #95601
    markmelch
    Member
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