Some general questions

  • Resolved flizzywp

    (@flizzywp)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,
    as a newbie I try to understand redirects better.
    My main questions is: Should I avoid them if possible? Should I rather edit my old posts and update the internal links there (and additionaly create the redirect to catch the rest)?

    If you had a huge amount of links to update, would you rather go through that work or just let the Redirection plugin do it’s job?

    I recently edited 200 links under my Youtube videos because I linked to 200 pages. It took me a whole day. Would you do the same?

    How many redirects do big websites have? Do they just pile up indefinitely or should you delete them when you see that they get only few clicks?

    I had some very long unchanged post slugs on my old posts. Would you rather change and redirect them, or leave them untouched?

    I just wonder about best practices here to think longterm. I don’t want to create an unmanageable mess.

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    In an ideal world you wouldn’t have redirects. But it’s not an ideal world, and websites change, and redirects are needed.

    It’s hard to answer the rest of your questions as really it depends. Would I edit 200 YouTube links – I don’t know, it depends on the links and what they were for, and why they needed redirecting.

    How many redirects do big websites have – I don’t know, it could be zero, it could be hundreds or thousands. It’s the ‘how long is a piece of string’ question.

    Should you delete them if they don’t have any hits – that’s up to you. Redirection shows you when a redirect was last used. It doesn’t harm anything to leave an old redirect in place, and has no impact on your sites performance.

    Would I change long post slugs? Really that’s an SEO question not a redirect question. If you think it helps your SEO then sure, do it, and you can Redirection to help with the transition.

    I wouldn’t worry so much about creating an unmanageable mess but more about what problems your website has, and how to solve those the best way.

    Thread Starter flizzywp

    (@flizzywp)

    Thank you

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