Setting up redirects for SEO purposes

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Changing the author slugs and base of an existing website can negatively impact SEO, especially if your author archives are indexed.

People coming to author pages from search engines will see a 404 error message. To avoid this, you need to set up redirects from the old URLs to the new author slug and base.

First, you need to install and activate the Redirection plugin . For more details, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin .

After activation, go to the Tools ” Redirection page . You will be greeted by the plugin setup wizard. You can follow the on-screen instructions to continue the setup or click the “Manual Installation” link to skip it.

Redirection wizard
Next, you will be taken to the “Redirect” list of south korea cell phone number page. From here, scroll down to the “Add New Redirect” section.

You need to add the old author page URL as the source and the new author page URL as the destination.

Redirect author page
Don't forget to click the "Add Redirect" button to save your changes. The plugin will now automatically redirect visitors who come to the old author page to the new URL.

If you have also changed the author base, you need to dynamically detect these URLs and redirect them.