301 Redirects GUI is located in WP Admin Dashboard – Settings – 301 Redirects. Choose from Pages, Posts, Custom Post types, Archives, and Term Archives from dropdown menu; Or, set a custom destination URL! Retain query strings across redirects; Super-fast redirection; Import/Export feature for bulk redirects management. The following configuration sample adds a wildcard redirection entry that redirects all requests for PHP files to the home page of your Web site. Note This example is useful if you have removed all ASP-based applications from your Web site and you wanted client requests for the old applications to be redirected to the root of your Web site.

Get the most in-depth link redirect data available

Perform advanced, comprehensive and most important correct analysis of links, redirects, and Rel-Canonicals with this extension for your SEO analysis.

Link Redirect Trace helps you

• Find excessive redirect chains (e.g. as generated by WordPress)
• Spot Off-page and On-page SEO issues
• Improve User-Experience – Find and fix slow redirects using redirect timings
• See which websites were really visited through a Short URL

And you can

• See the number, LRT Power and LRT Trust to each redirect hop
• Investigate links from advertising & affiliate networks and the cookies they set
• Spot missing or wrong REL-Canonicals
• Spot indexation issues on each redirect hop level
• Export the full redirect trace as Image or CSV

Are you looking for an efficient way to track redirects and headers while browsing?

Domains not only have backlinks, they often have redirects.

Redirects are used to forward a visitor from one URL to another URL.

If a strange domain is redirecting to you, you should check this in more detail and find out if this is a valuable website or if it is harming your rankings.

We built an all-in-one browser extension to help you trace any redirect that you can think of.

• Redirects parsing and checking.
• META-Refreshes.
• REL-Canonicals parsing and checking
• HTTP Headers.
• Cookies.
• Robots.txt parsing.
• All the technical SEO stuff you need.

Enter Link Redirect Trace.

How the Link Redirect Trace Extension works

What the Link Redirect Trace Extension does for you

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• detects every link redirect hop
• shows you the LRT Power*Trust™ per Link Redirect hop
• analyzes robots.txt for every hop
• analyzes HTML NoIndex, No Follow per redirect hop
• analyzes the HTTP header X-Robots Noindex, No Follow, NoArchive
• measures the time of a redirect hop and it shows you which redirect or URL shortener slows down user
• detects if a redirect is cached by your browser and allows to cache-bust and get the real results from the server
• highlights No Follow links on the pages you browse;
• ...and more

Always have all important SEO metrics at your fingertips.

What are the use cases of the Link Redirect Trace Extension and how it can help you

• discover On-page and Off-page SEO issues
• check your competitor’s links
• check your affiliate links
• check links after a website migration or redesign
• track a hacker website redirect
• improve User-Experience – Find and fix slow redirects using redirect timings
• detect a Google penalty
• ...and more

Understanding the Link Redirect Trace output

An explanation of the icons displayed by the Link Redirect Trace Plugin

Here is how you can read a combination of the above status messages:

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• Learn more about redirects and the extension.
• Understand the different redirect types 301, 302, 307, 308 and also REL-Canonicals
• Learn to read the HTTP headers

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Do you know if your links and, in particular, your redirects pass link juice?

This question has been unanswered for quite a while. That was the reason we added this logic to our toolkit in 2012. This functionality allows you to track your link redirects through several levels and also provides information about the structure of the redirect chain.

Are your redirects SEO-friendly?

Using the Link Redirect Trace, you can easily check whether your redirects are SEO-technically good and if they inherit link juice or not.

If the link redirect trace contains a 302 redirect or a meta refresh, you can quickly spot that and change your redirects to SEO-friendly redirects. In that way, you will gain more link juice.

The redirect management page is where you’ll do most of the work in Redirection. It consists of a table with all your redirects and a section to add new ones. To access this page select the Redirects option in the top menu bar.

Adding A Redirect

Use the ‘add new redirection’ form to create a new redirect.

In its most basic form you need to enter a source URL (the URL you are redirecting from) and a target URL (the URL you are redirecting to).

The source URL is generally relative to your site. This means, for example, if the URL you want to redirect from is https://myexample.com/old-url, and Redirection is installed on https://myexample.com then the source is /old-url – it is relative to your domain.

The target can be any URL, relative or otherwise.

Some things to note:

• The source URL should be URL encoded. For example, if you want to include a space in your URL you need to encode it as %20
• The source URL cannot contain a hash #. This is not sent to the server and it is not possible to match against it

Editing a Redirect

Once you’ve created a redirect it will be added to your list. When you hover over the newly created redirect you will see links appear beneath it:

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Press the edit link to edit the redirect in exactly the same way you added it.

Enabling, Disabling, and Deleting

Deleting a redirect removes it from Redirection and it will no longer be active.

A disabled redirect means the redirect still exists in Redirection, but it’s not active. Use this to temporarily disable the redirect without deleting it.

Enabling a redirect re-activates a disabled redirect.

Advanced Redirects

Advanced options are available by clicking the cog icon at the bottom of the redirect edit form.

301 Redirects

Clicking this expands the form to show the full range of options:

Think of this as a flow:

• Start with the source URL and query parameters. This defines what URL to match
• Add extra match details, to add additional requirements to the source URL (for example, when the user is logged in)
• Add a when matched action, that determines what happens when the URL is matched
• Add details to the action, such as target URL and HTTP code

Full details of this can be found here:

• Title – enter a text description about the redirect. This will be used instead of the URL in the redirect table, and is designed to help you understand the purpose of the redirect
• URL options – explained further on the URL matching page
• Query Parameters – explained further on the URL matching page
• Match – explained further on the Redirect Matches page
• When matched – explained further on the Redirect Action page
• Exclude from logs – do not log this redirect
• Group – explained further on the Groups page
• Position – controls the order in which redirects are processed. A lower number has a higher priority

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Searching & Filtering

If you have a lot of redirects you may find it useful to use the filter and search facility to find a particular redirect.

Filters allow you to reduce the visible redirects based on the conditions you set.

Multiple filters can be enabled.

Searches are like filters, but you can enter the text you want to search for. You can also change the search dropdown to determine what is searched.

Note that if you have a filter enabled and then use the bulk actions it is possible to affect only those items in the filter. This is a useful way to perform an action against a subset of your data.

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Customising the display

You can change what information is displayed by using the display dropdown. Pick from the pre-defined list, or use a custom display.

See also

« What is a Redirect? | Matching a URL »