Mass 301s
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Hi All, im trying to find a way to do a mass list of 301s instead of just doing them individually, does anyone have any ideas or tips into how i can do this?
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Presuming your product pages sit under a /products/ subfolder, you could use this code in your htaccess file:
RewriteRule ^products/(.*)$ /anotherdirectory/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Or to redirect all to the homepage:
RewriteRule ^products/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L]
Obviously you can change the words "products" and "anotherdirectory" to whatever is applicable to you.
For more info on htaccess redirection you can read the Moz guide here.
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Without seeing the site and proposed structure, it is a little awkward to say with certainty, but if you have a structure for the product pages that can be matched via a wildcard expression, then it is possible to write an .htaccess redirect for it - but most would probably opt to do this with the old page being redirected to the new page - a more straight forward procedure.
-Andy
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Just the products page
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What are you trying to redirect? Is it every page in a site, or specific pages?
-Andy
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