Redirect Mapping with Core dna

Seamlessly manage your website's redirects with the intuitive Redirect Mapping feature in Core dna. Enhance your web traffic management and maintain SEO integrity effortlessly.

Understanding Redirect Mapping in Core dna

Redirect Mapping within Core dna allows marketers to efficiently manage URL changes, ensuring that site visitors and search engines are seamlessly redirected to the most relevant content. This feature helps in maintaining the SEO value of your pages by passing on the link equity from old URLs to new ones, thus preventing the dreaded 404 error pages.

How Redirect Mapping Works with Core dna

In Core dna, Redirect Mapping is a part of the comprehensive content management suite. It allows marketers to create, edit, and delete redirect rules directly from the admin panel. With an intuitive interface, users can specify source URLs and their corresponding destination URLs, choose the type of redirect (301 permanent or 302 temporary), and even schedule redirects for future implementation.

Key Features

• Easy rule creation and management
• Support for 301 and 302 redirects
• Bulk import and export of redirect rules
• Scheduling redirects for future dates
• Detailed logging of all redirect activity

Practical Use Case

Consider a scenario where a company is rebranding and needs to update their website URLs to reflect the new brand identity. Using Core dna's Redirect Mapping feature, the marketing team can pre-plan all necessary redirects to ensure a smooth transition. They can easily set up 301 redirects from old brand URLs to the new URLs, preserving SEO rankings and ensuring that visitors reach the intended pages. The scheduling feature allows them to coordinate the redirect activation with the launch of the new brand, minimizing any potential disruption.

Implementation Example

// Example of redirect rule
Source URL: /old-brand/products
Destination URL: /new-brand/products
Redirect Type: 301 Permanent
Activation Date: 2023-12-01

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