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    • emarketexperts
      emarketexperts last edited by

      Hi All,

      We had a WIX website and now moved to Wordpress. I m having issue while doing redirecting from old URL  to new URL.

      Example:

      Old Url:  http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/#!traffic-management/ccfn

      New Url:  http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/our-services/traffic-management/

      I tried different wordpress plugin but nothing works. I m thinking its due to the # . But How can I to redirection for URL like this .

      Thanks

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      • BlueprintMarketing
        BlueprintMarketing last edited by

        Yes you are correct it is due to the #. Google does not index anything after the #so if you redirect to itfrom their perspective you might as well be doing nothing. The canonical tag could help. But more importantly why would you want to redirect to a URL with a #in it?

        Google only sees this URL as

        http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/

        NOT http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/#!traffic-management/ccfn

        http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/our-services/traffic-management/

        you could redirect a new URL or create a substitute URL but if your redirecting is even successfully with a # in you're URL

        Makes no sense what I would do is re-created or simply find a different URL to redirect offer to feel BU the homepage is the correct URL Yoast Wordpress SEO premium might be

        Able to do it I know that you can do it server-side however tell me what stack you're running and I will send you the instructions on how to redirect. But know this your redirect you know if the homepage Google looks at it that way

        all the best, Thomas

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        • TheWebMastercom
          TheWebMastercom last edited by

          Thomas is correct.  You cannot redirect from an URL with a hashtag in it (although it is possible to redirect to an URL with a hastag using escape fragments).  Unfortunately, in your case it is the former, and therefore not possible.

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          • BlueprintMarketing
            BlueprintMarketing last edited by

            Wix is no fun

            you can try this

            https://www.wix.com/support/html5/search-engine-optimization/advanced-seo-settings/kb/301-redirects#anchor-creating-custom-urls-for-

            If you want google to use it

            Options +FollowSymlinks
            RewriteEngine on
            rewriterule ^#!traffic-management/ccfn(.*)$ http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/traffic-management/ccfn$1 [r=301,nc]

            https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/174992?hl=en

            http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/?_escaped_fragment_traffic-management/ccfn

            http://www.firsttraffic.com.au/#!traffic-management/ccfn

            RewriteEngine On
            RewriteRule ^traffic-management/ccfn$ /#!traffic-management/ccfn [L]

            RewriteEngine On

            RewriteRule ^([^-]*)$ /?escaped_fragment=$1 [L]

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