Redirects are a way to easily forward one address to another.
They usually serve three purposes:
- making sure an old address still works once a page has moved
- redirecting visitors to a deleted page to a different page
- providing a shortcut to easily access a more complex address (
yoursite.com/credirects toyoursite.com/cloud/svija/for example).
Old URL: the part you will type in the address bar after your main site address.
If you want to type yoursite.com/g to go to yoursite.com/my-most-excellent-gazpacho-recipe, you’ll enter /g in this field.
New URL: where you want to end up.
If you want to go to a page in your website, enter /pagename (or /section/pagename if it’s not in the default section).
If you want to go to a different website, enter the entire address: https://adifferentwebsite.com/someotherpage.