Redirects

Effortlessly manage your website's navigation, fix broken links, and improve your SEO with the Smart Redirects Manager. This extension provides a simple and powerful interface to create and manage 301 (permanent) redirects directly from your admin panel.

• <b>Seamless URL Redirection:</b> Easily redirect old, broken, or outdated URLs to new, active pages. Prevent users from hitting "404 Not Found" errors and improve their browsing experience.
  
• <b>Boost Your SEO:</b> Preserve your search engine rankings by telling search engines that a page has permanently moved. A proper 301 redirect passes link equity (ranking power) to the new destination URL.
  
• <b>Track Redirect Performance:</b> Keep an eye on how often your redirects are being used with the built-in "Hits Count" feature. Gain valuable insights into which old links are still receiving traffic.
  
• <b>High-Speed Performance with Caching:</b> Includes an optional caching layer to handle a high volume of redirects with minimal impact on your site's performance. Redirects are loaded into memory for near-instant lookups.
  
• <b>User-Friendly Management:</b> A clean and intuitive interface allows you to add, edit, enable, or disable redirects on the fly without needing to write any code or edit server configuration files.
  

<b>Important Note for Clients</b>

Please be aware that changes to your redirects may not appear to take effect instantly. This can be due to two types of caching:

1. <b>Server Caching:</b> If the caching feature is enabled in the extension's settings, the list of redirects is stored on the server for a configured period (e.g., 60 minutes). Any new redirects or changes will only be applied after this cache duration has passed.
   
2. <b>Browser Caching:</b> Modern web browsers also cache 301 redirects very aggressively to speed up loading times. If you have visited a redirected URL before, your browser may have saved that redirect and will not ask the server for the new destination until its own cache is cleared.
   

If you need to test a new redirect immediately, we recommend using your browser's private/incognito mode.