.aspx 301 redirects on Business Catalyst

[EntertainmentIdeas]

Hi

I am have moved my website from .aspx to business catalyst.

I have found out (when the site already migrated!) that Business Catalyst does not support .aspx 301 redirects.

On a previous post from 2012 (https://moz.com/community/q/aspx-files-will-simply-not-work-as-redirects) , someone has recommended a java script re direct. I have tried this but google search console is classing this as a 404 resulting in no link juice and my website dropping pages on google.

I have tried to do 301 redirects at my server level but wont work.

Anyone know a solution?

Thanks in advance

Keith

[OlegKorneitchouk]

If you could keep the .aspx pages at their old locations, you can add aspx redirect code: http://www.rapidtables.com/web/tools/redirect-generator.htm

[mikesallander]

Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do on Business Catalyst to redirect the .aspx pages.

This is what we have done in the past for situations where we needed to make sure the .aspx pages are redirected and you do not have access to existing server. The solution is not ideal, and takes a bunch of extra work, but may be worth it for clients who are really concerned with SEO:

1. Build new website on BC
2. Take the HTML/CSS output of all the pages and load onto another server outside of BC.
3. Setup the redirects for all pages on the site (including the .aspx pages) to the new .html location on this temporary server
4. Point the domain to the temporary server
5. Wait until Google has indexed the new location of the pages
6. Point the DNS over to the BC website

Or, I believe Oleg's suggestion will work if you do this prior to moving the website over to Business Catalyst. Putting redirects on the old server will not do anything if you have pointed the DNS or the a records over to BC already.

[MattRoney]

Hi Keith! Did Oleg's and/or Michael's response help, and if so, would you mind marking one or both as a Good Answer?

[EntertainmentIdeas]

Hi Guys

Thanks for all of your help. After weeks of trying lots of suggestions (including the ones above), we have finally found a solution - Cloudflare.

We have done our 301 redirects via cloudflare to remove the .aspx

E.g. /old-directory/page1.aspx has been 301 redirected to /old-directory/page1 using cloudflare. This has removed the .aspx and allowed me to use business catalyst's 301 redirects to direct /old-directory/page1 to new-directory/page1

This has fully restored my page rank!

I would like to thank Adam at Redback Creations in Northern Ireland for helping me with this issue.

Keith