Hi guys, I have reworked my wife’s website and re-imported data from another location. This will result in old product pages having 404 Not Found unless I manually redirect each page. Is there a good way to do that in hugo that will work for Google indexing engine? I don’t have access to the web…

You can use Hugo aliases to do page redirects, but to do this at the HTTP layer, you need a better host service (such as Netlify ).

I think you want to read about aliases: [image] URL Management Hugo supports permalinks, aliases, link canonicalization, and multiple options for handling relative vs absolute URLs. Other than that, Stackoverflow.com has quite some answers about “Google Storage …

[image] Sergei_G: Am I totally out of luck in terms of implementing a proper 301 redirect? No, you are in luck. No go and setting it up easily in that storage service, but the good news is moving it elsewhere is super easy. There are tons of cheap and free hosting and has proper redirect syst…

We do that on the Hugo web sites with Netlify redirects: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugoDocs In short: Disable aliases Use the same alias definitions to create a Netlify redirects file with a Custom Output Format

Thank you guys. It gives me enough pointers.

I suggest you also see the following link if you go the aliases route: [image] Aliases appear not to work properly in the New Google Search Console support I never saw an issue with the old version of the search console picking up the redirect, or most importantly the “ca…

How to return 301 Moved Permanently?

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Jonathan_Griffin January 31, 2019, 7:07am 7

I suggest you also see the following link if you go the aliases route:

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How to return 301 Moved Permanently?

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