URL Redirects

Fictitious URL Redirects

You can make up urls at your name for example https://yourdomain.com/getcash and have that address be redirected to an internal or extrernal url. This is beneficial if you want to redirect someone to an affiliate url which may be considerably longer or mask the true url from searches or customers.

You can also shorten longer urls such as shopping cart item pages and dynamic urls with long querry strings.

See some of the sample redirect applications below.

To add redirects go to > Page Properties and look for the link "Redirect Fictitious URLs".

Affiliate Redirects

Example: You could set up, https://yourdomain.com/getcash and redirect it to https://someaffiliateprogram.com/affid123&12345%206542891%20. This lets you advertise the shorter url and redirect customers to outside websites that track your referals and pay you.

If you are advertising on google ad words or in some print media you will want a url that is short and easy to remember.

Redirect Old Pages

One problem with moving websites from one host to another is that your page addresses can change. By creating redirects of the old page addresses, (which do not exist on the new site) to the new pages you can maintain the same search traffic and link traffic you have built up over the years.

Lets say you moved your website from another host and you had your jewelry at https://yourdomain.com/jewelry/ but now the jewelry is at https://yourdomain.com/programs/shop/estore.cgi?lst=1&lnd=10&category=Jewelry.

You wont lose traffic because we redirect all 404 traffic to your home page. But someone may not want to click a search on google and have to look for your jewelry after they get to your website. Using a redirect will send the user dierctly to the new url of the old page.

Redirect Rules

Remember, to redirect a url to a new page you must not have the name as a file on your website currently. For example if you have mydomain.com/samplepage.html you cannot redirect to that name since a page request would resolve at the actual page before any redirect is inniated.

The names are not case sensitive. We set it up that way to make life easier for you. Even though the system is case sensitive the domain name is not and neither is the redirect name. However, the actual urls of any pages you rediect to are still case sensitive.

So each of the following urls will redirect to the same page.

https://MyDomain.com/Sample
https://MYDOMAIN.COM/SAMPLE
https://mydomain.com/sample

You can use up to 100 redirects. The page will give you 10 blanks, each time you access the page you will have 10 new blanks in addition to the redirect you have specified.

URLs must be complete including the https:// or the user will not be redirected to the page. We leave this open so you can do redirects to ftp:// and https:// urls as well as the standard https://.

You need to specify the name and the url to send the visitor to. If either field is left blank the pair will be removed.

Names can be numbers, letters only no spaces or other characters. All other characters will be removed from the name. So check the names after you submit them to make sure they are as you entered them.

Redirect page accesses are not logged since they use the 404 redirect program. If the visitor is redirected to a local page it will log that page only. If you do extrenal redirects there is no way to track the traffic.