301 Redirect Issue for URL with # and !
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Hi All,
We had a WIX website and now moved to Wordpress. I m having issue while doing redirecting from old URL to new URL.
Example:
Old Url: http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/#!traffic-management/ccfn
New Url: http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/our-services/traffic-management/
I tried different wordpress plugin but nothing works. I m thinking its due to the # . But How can I to redirection for URL like this .
Thanks
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Wix is no fun
you can try this
If you want google to use it
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewriterule ^#!traffic-management/ccfn(.*)$ http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/traffic-management/ccfn$1 [r=301,nc]https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en
http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/?_escaped_fragment_traffic-management/ccfn
http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/#!traffic-management/ccfn
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^traffic-management/ccfn$ /#!traffic-management/ccfn [L]RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^-]*)$ /?escaped_fragment=$1 [L]
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Thomas is correct. You cannot redirect from an URL with a hashtag in it (although it is possible to redirect to an URL with a hastag using escape fragments). Unfortunately, in your case it is the former, and therefore not possible.
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Yes you are correct it is due to the #. Google does not index anything after the #so if you redirect to itfrom their perspective you might as well be doing nothing. The canonical tag could help. But more importantly why would you want to redirect to a URL with a #in it?
Google only sees this URL as
http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/
NOT http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/#!traffic-management/ccfn
http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/our-services/traffic-management/
you could redirect a new URL or create a substitute URL but if your redirecting is even successfully with a # in you're URL
Makes no sense what I would do is re-created or simply find a different URL to redirect offer to feel BU the homepage is the correct URL Yoast Wordpress SEO premium might be
Able to do it I know that you can do it server-side however tell me what stack you're running and I will send you the instructions on how to redirect. But know this your redirect you know if the homepage Google looks at it that way
all the best, Thomas
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