How to Redirect Any WordPress Page

icon1 Posted by Rochelle in How To... on 04 17th, 2009 | 7 responses

 

Today I started working on one of my BANS sites by adding a WordPress blog to the backend of it.  This particular site has been dropped WAY low in Google, and about the only traffic it gets is from Yahoo and MSN.  Since Google still has it indexed, it is my hope that adding a blog to it will rejuvenate it for Google.

After installing and setting up the blog, I needed to add a link from the blog to the BANS store.  What I wanted to do was create a page and have that page redirect to the store.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to do this:

First, create the blog page (not a post).

Add <meta http-equiv=“refresh” content=“0; url=web_address” /> to the HTML editor side of the body of the post.  

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Make sure you change web_address to the page you want to redirect to.

Publish page and view your blog.  Click on the link to make sure the redirect works properly.



7 Responses to “How to Redirect Any WordPress Page”

  1. Sunshine says:
    April 17, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Rochelle,

    You’ve done it again. Thanks for that life raft. I promise you I spent over an hour with hostgator last week trying to figure out how to do this properly.

    By the way, do you use hostgator and if so, do you know how to use the redirect listed in their cpanel? It seems rather simple but neither I nor the hostgator guy could figure out what was going wrong.

    I’m sure today’s redirect tip will help in a big way.

    Thanks again!

    Sunshine

  2. Rochelle says:
    April 17, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Sunshine,

    Glad I could help : )

    Yes, I use Hostgator. To be honest, I had no idea there is a redirect option within cPanel. This is pretty easy, so I think I’ll stick with this method.

    Rochelle

  3. Mark says:
    April 17, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Hi Rochelle –

    Just got back from a week in DC and saw this post in my reader…

    The “Meta Refresh” should be your LAST option for redirecting a page… Search engines look at it as a devious method that was often used by spammers in the past.

    The best (Of course, its never the easiest) is to just grab the WordPress redirect plugin, and set a 301.

    OR…

    Just edit the sites .htaccess in your cPanel > file manager > (I recommend editing the htaccess ON the server itself versus locally) and add the 301:

    redirect 301 /newpage http://www.yoursite.com/bans/

    Mark

  4. Julie Simmons says:
    April 17, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    Thanks, Rochelle.

    I’ve been using the redirection plugin, but this is easier, I think.

    Keep sharing what you find useful. You are a big help to me.

    Julie

  5. Julie Simmons says:
    April 17, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    Well, Mark’s post (above) popped up after i made my post. I guess the redirect plugin is the best way to go.

  6. Alice says:
    April 17, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    Hi Rochelle,

    This is the same problem I’ve had with quite a few of my BANS sites, and I added WP to them to boost their ratings. I’ll be interested to see how your sites work out, because even though I added tons of original blog content Google still won’t look at these sites! But at least they’re still indexed, and fortunately they get good traffic from Yahoo and MSN.

    I sure wish I knew what Google doesn’t like about my sites, and hope that your blog will work for you on yours!

  7. Rochelle says:
    April 17, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    Mark,

    Welcome home. I wondered why you have been so quiet over the past week…

    Thanks for the info! I just changed my site to use redirect 301 /newpage http://www.yoursite.com/bans/

    Worked like a charm!

    Rochelle

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