REDIRECTS AND BROKEN LINKS CHECK

What is a redirect?

When you are designing a new webpage chances are the URL is going to have to change. For example:

OLD PAGE URL
https://www.your-website.com/collections/your-service

to:

NEW PAGE URL
https://www.your-website.com/your-service

Let's imagine that the Old Page is already ranking on Google (sometimes you might hear people say that the page has been 'indexed' by Google). When you updated the URL to the new page, that's great, but it is not going to update Google, or any other website where the page link might appear. When somebody clicks the Old Page link it is not going to find the New Page, and they will be sent to your 404 page.

What's a 404 page?

A 404 page is where users are sent when they click on a link to a page that no longer exists. Have a look at MOBLE's 404 pages for MOBLE and DirtyFeet:

https://www.moble.com/404
https://www.dirtyfeet.com.au/404

While you can have fun with a 404, it is never the desired outcome. You should ensure that your users don't have the unfortunate experience of landing on a 404 by setting up your redirects.

How to setup redirects for Old URLs?

At the time of writing MOBLE's Redirects tool and Broken Links tool are in Beta. We will be turning on them on shortly in a tab via the main menu called 'Optimise'.

To add and edit redirects:

• Type this into your browser:
  https://your-site-name.moble.site/redirects (See example in the screenshot below)
• Click the '+ Add Redirect' button in the top right
• Add the old URL path (no need to add the domain name, just the path
  E.g. /blog not https://www.dirtyfeet.com.au/blog