Create URL Redirects in Site.com

You can use URL redirects to:

• Maintain search engine ranking. For example, if you change a page's name from “Gadgets” to “Widgets,” creating a redirect rule from /Gadgets to /Widgets lets you restructure the site without affecting your page ranking.
• Make URLs more readable and memorable. For example, site visitors find long or numeric page names, such as /widget65AD890004ab9923, difficult to remember. Instead, you can provide them with a short, friendly URL, such as /widget, and create an alias that redirects to the correct page when the user uses the short URL alias.
• Assist with migration from another system to Site.com if you're still using the same domain. For example, if your old site ran on PHP, you can create a redirection rule from an old page, such as /index.php, to a new page in Site.com, such as /myNewPage.

To assign a redirect to a site page:

1. On the Overview tab, click Site Configuration | URL Redirects.
2. Click Create a Redirect.
3. Specify the Redirect type:

   Option	Description
   Permanent (301)	Select this option if you want users and search engines to update the URL in their systems when visiting the page. Users visiting a page redirected with this type are sent seamlessly to the new page. Using a permanent redirect ensures that your URLs retain their search engine popularity ratings, and that search engines index the new page and remove the obsolete source URL from their indexes.
   Temporary (302)	Select this option if you want users and search engines to keep using the original URL for the page. Search engines interpret a 302 redirect as one that could change again at any time, and though they index and serve up the content on the new target page, they also keep the source URL in their indexes.
   Alias	Select this option if you don't want the URL to change in the user's browser, but you want to redirect to a different page. Search engines aren’t aware of the change or update their records. Alias redirects only work when you redirect from one Site.com page to another. You can't create an alias to an external address.

4. Specify the former page location in the Redirect from field.
   • The page location must be a relative URL.
   • The page can have any valid extension type, such as .html or .php, and can contain parameters. Parameter order is irrelevant.
   • The URL can't contain anchors, such as /siteprefix/page.html#target.
   • You can create just one redirection rule from a particular URL. If you create a rule with the same Redirect From information, the old rule is overwritten.
5. Specify the new page location in the Redirect to field, which can be a relative URL or a fully qualified URL with an http:// or https:// prefix. Unlike pages you're redirecting from, pages you're redirecting to can contain anchors.
6. To immediately enable the redirection rule, ensure Active is selected. To enable it at a later stage, deselect the property.
7. Click Save.

The URL Redirects section displays all URL redirection rules you've created for your site.

• Edit an assigned redirect rule by clicking | Edit Redirect.
• Delete a redirect rule by clicking | Delete Redirect.