Moved or renamed a page? A redirect sends visitors (and search engines) from the old address to the new one. Redirects here are permanent (301): browsers and search engines remember the new address.
Before you start
- The site must be live.
- Redirects are on the site's Settings tab, the account's owner, administrators and developers see (developers see the sections they may change). See team roles.
Add a redirect
- Open Sites → your site → Settings → Redirects.
- In From, type the old path on your site, starting with
/:/old-page. - In To, type where it should go: another path on your site (
/new-page) or a full address starting withhttp://orhttps://(https://example.com/page). - Press Add. The page confirms "Redirect saved — live within a minute."
The redirect appears in the table above the form. The band's note shows how many you have used of the per-site limit.
What a redirect matches
- Exactly one path.
/old-pageand/old-page/are different addresses. If visitors reach both, add a redirect for each. - Simple characters only. Paths may contain letters, numbers and
/ . _ ~ -. Spaces,%-encoded characters and?are not accepted. - Not the home page.
/can't be redirected, and a path can't redirect to itself. - One redirect per path. To change where a path goes, remove its redirect and add it again.
Note: A redirect wins over your site. Once it is live, your site no longer answers on the old path, even if the page still exists there.
Remove a redirect
Press Remove on its row and confirm. Visitors to the old address are no longer sent on; they get whatever your site serves there. It applies within a minute.