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Hi Guys,
We are having an issue with setting up redirects for old blog posts that no longer exist. The issue is raised because Google still returns blog pages in it's indexing even when the blog has been replaced.
We are using the built in "redirect" manager to set up the redirects (there are far to many to use HTAccess, plus the client does not have access to HTAccess in rder to edit it), and we are getting the following error message:
400 - Sorry but we couldn't find the blog entry that you are looking for
When checking, the redirect manager can only deal with 404 errors, and not 400 errors, and a search via Google mentions that you have a function to generate redirects for old blog posysts that no longer exist. Therefoere my question is, 1. do you have a redirection plugin that can redirect old blog posts to new blog posts?, and 2. does it work with the redirect manager, or is it only accessible from within Easy Blog?
To see an example of what I mean here, try visiting the following page:
http://www.scientificss.co.uk/blog/alytech-launch-new-two-channel-gasmix-zephyr-1-1
This should redirect you to the following page, but instead throws the 400 errormentioned above:
http://www.scientificss.co.uk/blog/alytech-launch-new-two-channel-gasmix-zephyr-1-3
However, if you directly type in the 2nd URL you can directly access the page, so the issue is clearly that the redirection is not working.
The problem is mainly because the clients customers bookmark the product info pages in the blogs, and thus the client needs the redirection to be in place so that they are redirected to the new, replacement page.
Any help or suggestions that you can give on this would be much appreciayted.
We are having an issue with setting up redirects for old blog posts that no longer exist. The issue is raised because Google still returns blog pages in it's indexing even when the blog has been replaced.
We are using the built in "redirect" manager to set up the redirects (there are far to many to use HTAccess, plus the client does not have access to HTAccess in rder to edit it), and we are getting the following error message:
400 - Sorry but we couldn't find the blog entry that you are looking for
When checking, the redirect manager can only deal with 404 errors, and not 400 errors, and a search via Google mentions that you have a function to generate redirects for old blog posysts that no longer exist. Therefoere my question is, 1. do you have a redirection plugin that can redirect old blog posts to new blog posts?, and 2. does it work with the redirect manager, or is it only accessible from within Easy Blog?
To see an example of what I mean here, try visiting the following page:
http://www.scientificss.co.uk/blog/alytech-launch-new-two-channel-gasmix-zephyr-1-1
This should redirect you to the following page, but instead throws the 400 errormentioned above:
http://www.scientificss.co.uk/blog/alytech-launch-new-two-channel-gasmix-zephyr-1-3
However, if you directly type in the 2nd URL you can directly access the page, so the issue is clearly that the redirection is not working.
The problem is mainly because the clients customers bookmark the product info pages in the blogs, and thus the client needs the redirection to be in place so that they are redirected to the new, replacement page.
Any help or suggestions that you can give on this would be much appreciayted.
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