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301 Redirect Plugin for Wordpress … for Non-Technical Bloggers

by Jeff Quipp.


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How frequently do you write blog posts knowing that they’ve got a very limited shelf life, or post a news post knowing it’ll be out of date in a months time?

All the time right? Then why not make the links garnered by those posts work for for you? A 301 redirect is the best way to do so!

Well, now there’s a quick and easy solution for the more non-technical amongst us. SEP has developed a 301 redirect plugin for Wordpress.


What Does It Do?

This plugin permits you to:

  1. easily 301 redirect any blog post or page (future or past) to any other post or page (internal or external site) by merely entering the url to redirect to.
  2. choose a specific time and date to have the redirect occur

When to Use:

  1. when the information in the post has a limited shelf life, and provides no value after the fact
  2. when you dramatically improve an existing post, and want previous less extensive posts to support the ranking of the new post
  3. when a post does not rank for the desired terms, redirecting and combining the link power of more than one post may secure the desired rankings.

How to Get it?
Simple …. merely download the file from here http://www.searchenginepeople.com/tools/wp-301redirect.zip

How to Install it?
Here’s a great guide to installing WordPress plugins … How To Install a WordPress Plugin

How To Use it?
Simple … enter the date you need the redirect to occur on, and the page/site you want the specified page redirected to. Voila … done!
301 Redirect Wordpress Plugin

The plugin is free of charge so go ahead and try it. You may want to bookmark this page though as we’ll make updates to the plugin via this page. Now … feel free to try it!

Enjoy!

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As posted in SEO, Blogging on August 25, 2008.

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25 Responses: 18 comments and 7 trackbacks

  1. Miguel Salcido (8 comments.) Says:

    This is a sweet plugin. Great work! This is definitely a useful plugin that will be a mainstay in all of my blog setups.

  2. Metaspring (60 comments.) Says:

    Thanks for developing the plug in and explaining how it works in simple, lucid terms.

  3. Singapore SEO (73 comments.) Says:

    Focusing on long tailed keywords can deliver unexpected results. We targeted long tailed keywords back in 2005 and
    now these batch of terms are delivering more than 60% of our search traffic. However, you will need to predict
    phrases that might be used to find your products or services. You may wish to use trending tools to determine the
    search trend for a particular product or service before deciding on the long tailed keyword.

  4. funny news (2 comments.) Says:

    Oh man! I’d been wondering how to do exactly this last week for my friend’s political news blog. You can bet he’s gonna hear about this plugin.

  5. chuck norris dude (7 comments.) Says:

    Since I changed my permalinks for better SEO on 2 of my blogs recently, I get a lot of 301. I hope this plugin will help me bring readers where they were going.

  6. Justin | Denver SEO Expert (1 comments.) Says:

    Would this plugin work to redirect the home page of a blog? If so how?

  7. Bill Canaday (1 comments.) Says:

    Hoo-Hah! I’ve been wondering what to do about last years posts … now I know!

    Thank you very much! (Or, as they say in Aruba … Masha Danke!)

  8. Anni Says:

    Hi, I’ve installed this plugin but get the error

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/…./ single.php:1) in /homepages/…/wp-content/plugins/wp-301redirect/wp-301redirect.php on line 54

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /homepages/…/single.php:1) in /homepages/…/wp-content/plugins/wp-301redirect/wp-301redirect.php on line 55

    What should I change in code?
    Thanks a lot!

  9. Mr Article (7 comments.) Says:

    That’s a great plugin for sure, i’ll probably install it on my blog because i often post a run up to events and then post after it. Would it be good to use these 301 redirects for posts that are deleted too?

  10. Anni Pelmeni (1 comments.) Says:

    Hey, I fixed the error with header. It was something wrong with php code in single.php file. I just replaced first and commando geting header - it worked.

  11. Increase Online Traffic (2 comments.) Says:

    Question on the plugin, what is the best time to set the 301 and what is the suggested use of the redirect http:// box?

    Would I just put in the name of the blog or a date?

  12. Michael D (18 comments.) Says:

    HaHa, I was searching for a plugin so I could update and 301 some old posts on my wordpress blog when I saw the face of Jeff Quipp. Plugin downloaded. You made my day!

  13. Increase Online Traffic (2 comments.) Says:

    Hi, not sure if you saw my other post, but do you have an example of how this plugin is used, what to put in the empty field area? When is a good time to set the 301?

  14. iPhone Australia (1 comments.) Says:

    I’ve installed it and now I know which pages are hit when and which ones are missing…a really good plugin for wordpress..

  15. John (1 comments.) Says:

    I get the following error.

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘AND redirect_url IS NOT NULL’ at line 1]
    SELECT (UNIX_TIMESTAMP(NOW()) - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(expiry_date)) as datediff, redirect_url FROM wp_301redirect WHERE post_id = AND redirect_url IS NOT NULL

  16. Marc Says:

    Once you have installed the plugin where exactly do u make these changes?

    I can not find the plugin edit options anywhere in the wordpress interface????

  17. Jeff (1 comments.) Says:

    Hi this looks like a great plug-in, but I have ran into a little problem. The plug-in activates just fine, no errors. I am able to enter a redirect address into a post and update the date. But when I go to that post it does not redirect. I’ve tried clearing the browser cache, re-activating the plug-in, but it just won’t work. Any ideas?

  18. Be a ChaCha Expeditor Guide (1 comments.) Says:

    Great plugin…I will be adding to my useful plugins list. Thanks.

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