Redirect Backlinks for SEO

Understanding how to set up proper 301 redirects to increase your website’s PageRank and organic traffic is essential for site migrations and to control the flow of earned backlinks when content moves locations.

Now, there are two primary reasons for redirecting backlinks:

To redirect inbound links going to a web page to another URL on the same domain (e.g., the content moved or the original page was deleted).
To redirect inbound links going to an old domain over to a new domain to pass link equity for SEO value.
We’ll cover both of these redirection strategies below so you know how to set up proper 301 redirects to save all of the PageRank value from incoming backlinks etc