What Is 301 & 302 Redirection? Use Redirection Without Losing Search Traffic

So in this video tutorial, we’ll discuss what is 301 & 302 redirection and walk you through configuring redirections to avoid losing search traffic.

Chapters (Timestamps):
00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - What is Redirection?
01:39 - What is 301, 302 & 307 Redirection?
03:10 - Redirecting Single Posts
04:54 - Single Redirect Example
05:50 - Changing Site Structure
05:59 - Bulk Redirection
06:44 - CSV Redirection
08:04 - Regex Redirection
09:16 - Regex Redirect Example
13:02 - Debug Redirections
14:23 - Redirection Categories
15:37 - Redirects for Change in Domain Name
16:10 - Creating 301 Redirections with .htaccess
19:39 - Creating 301 Redirections in Nginx
20:56 - Managing Cloaked Affiliate Links
25:39 - Outro

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We have covered everything we know about redirections and how to use it to your advantage, and we hope it helps. If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask them in the comments section. We will do our best to help you out!

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[bruceaisher]

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[iqbalmauludy]

Awesome video, Jack.
Thanks for explaining it all in 1 video, it's really really helpful. This removes a lot of doubt now.

[azonicin]

Thank you for such a detailed video about redirection which I haven't seen in any other videos. Well explained the issues and the method for fixing them. The recommendation for separating of the link type on the basis of folder and regular expression is really appreciable.

[katy.boykin]

This literally saved my butt on a complex redirection issue for a client with an outdated permalink structure! Thanks so much for this helpful video and in-depth tutorial!

[fabiojuliato]

You are awesome. Super clear, direct and most comphreensive content I´ve ever seen. Kudos to you.

[messeguemtarek]

Great tuto as usual, waiting for more :-))

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[RickBillings]

Been using RantMath PRO for years and love it. I have a question.
So you're saying is that if I have a 10-year old site with over 800 pages/post and I need to migrate it to a new domain that all the SEO will stay in tack. I get over 300 hits per day and don't want to loose them. Is the redirect technique that you explain in this video at the 16:00 minute mark permanent? Is there anything else I should do?

[LivePainFree]

Is there a video that shows how to set up a redirect when I'm trying to organize/setup my blog post categories and doing a bulk move. I want to make sure I don't mess up my blog posts.

[vibrating_life]

Thanks for your explanation. Please could you explain us how to solve the 404 problem in console search console using rankmath

[abubakarsadiqsalihu]

Nice video. I hope the REGEX can help me strip off the custom year/month on my site url to just post name without any search engine rank lost.?

[audunjemtland]

I changed permalink structure from default: ?p=123 to Post name: sample-post/

Site is pretty new but was indexed before this change.

What do I need to do, to completely index the site with brand new permalink structure?

(It completely lost it's visibility, though the site does exist on google and are active.)

[dhamelvishal]

which redirection is best to transfer contents of the penalized website to the new website I only want content and google dont consider both duplicate

[kalbaanik]

the code at 18:17 is not in the guide on the website. this step is very annoying to overcome, would have appreaciated if the code was anywhere to copy from.

[webloadedtech]

automatically created a redirection are not working on my website

[baddhidurgarao]

I have a major issue - I've redirected my website A URLs to website B now all the URLs of website A was disappeared on google search and website B ranking was not increased, how I can restore my website A ranking back, it was really urgent to me, kindly respond to this comment asap, I am waiting for your response, Thank you!