How to return 301 Moved Permanently?

[Jonathan_Griffin]

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

Aliases appear not to work properly in the New Google Search Console

I never saw an issue with the old version of the search console picking up the redirect, or most importantly the “canonical” as that is what they use to recognise a redirect. Basically, when I inspected the alias in the Search console (enter the url in the top bar to inspect it) it came back as no-index, and as such it did not display any other information about the url. I decided to test the meta refresh alias with a custom alias.html in the layouts directory removing the no-index: <!DOCTYPE…