URL REDIRECTS

This article will walk you through, step-by-step, on how to add product redirects through your WSM admin.

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• Manually Adding Redirects
• Importing Redirects

• Create a Domain Redirect

• Video for Manually Creating Redirects

Step-by-step guides

Manually Adding Redirects

1. In the back-end of the site hover on System.
2. Click URL Redirects.
3. Click Add Redirect.
4. View the page on the front end of the website
5. Highlight and copy all the information after your domain and include the " / ".
   1. for example: you would need to copy everything after the ".com" www.webshopmanager.com/c-1390464-exterior-accessories.html. This is also called the relative URL.
6. Paste the relative URL into the URL Path.
7. View the page on the front end of the website you want to redirect the page too.
8. Highlight and copy all the information after your domain and include the " / " (See example in Step 5).
9. Paste this URL into the Target Field.
10. Leave rewrite unchecked.
11. Click Add Redirect button.
12. In order for Redirects to take effect, you must clear your site's cache.
    1. Click configuration from the systems menu.
    2. Scroll down and click save changes - Note you do not have to make any changes. 

Importing Redirects

Large amounts of redirects can be created by using an import.

1. Get a list of the URLs you want to redirect. This can be achieved from multiple sources. Sometimes it is from Google, your sitemap, or even exporting products with URL field.
2. Name the heading for the URL you want to redirect to OLD URL
3. Then add a column with NEW URL
4. In the NEW URL add the URL where you want the page to be redirected too. You should choose a page that is close in content.
5. If you are redirecting a page on your site to another page on your site, remove your domain name from all URLs.
6. Save your file as a CSV
7. Copy the first three rows of data, including your column heading
8. Paste into a new sheet
9. Save the file as a CSV with Test on the end of the filename
10. Run a test import
11. Log into WSM
12. Hover on Data
13. Click CSV Profile
14. Search for Profile ID 756, WSM (COPY ONLY) Global Redirects Import
15. Click the Copy icon
16. Click Edit icon on the newly copied profile
17. Rename the profile to something with meaning i.e. your TAG - Redirects
18. Click the import icon
19. Click Choose File and location your Test file on your computer
20. Click Run Import
21. Once the import is finished confirm your test ran properly
22. Hover on System
23. Click Redirects
24. Search for one of your test URLs
25. The page you are redirected should be listed on the left and the URL it is redirecting too, the right. Confirm it does not include your domain.
26. Once your test is confirm, return to CSV Profiles and import the full list
27. In order for Redirects to take effect, you must clear your sites cache.
    1. Click configuration from the systems menu 
    2. Scroll down and click save changes - Note you do not have to make any changes

Redirect work immediately you will need to clear the site's cache

1. Hover over Systems
2. Click Configuration
3. Click Save Changes button, you do not need to make any changes.
4. Enter the old URL or if you still have the page open from step 4 above, click Refresh. You should be taken to the new page.

Create a Domain Redirect

The easiest way to do a domain redirect is with a domain forward in your domain management account. This may be a site like GoDaddy, depending on where you purchased those additional domains. You can set it up as a Domain Forward.

The second way is to add the domain to your Admin as a domain redirect.

1. In to the Admin of the site hover on System.
2. Click URL Redirects.
3. Scroll to the bottom and click Domains
4. Click Add Domain
5. Enter the required information
6. Click Add Domain

Video for Manually Creating Redirects