In addition to needing to handle 404 Errors after making changes to my website, I also needed to get visitors going from the old links to the updated links. The following WP plugin handles that nicely…

Simple 301 Redirects Plugin for WordPress

Once installed, access the plugin in the Settings menu, add the old url (url from the “/” address after the domain to the end) and then add the complete url for the new destination. Not only is this 301 Redirect tool very simple. It’s easy to redirect traffic another domain.

Practical Guide to 404 Error Pages: What WordPress is Missing

I saw the above article (Practical Guide to 404 Error Pages: What WordPress is Missing) following blog post from Yoast when it was posted a few months back.  At the time it didn’t mean much to me because the place I would have used it on is running a ColdFusion server. Well, last week I made some changes to my blog while doing some SEO. Then I found myself in the situation where 1 of my old blog posts was showing up #1 in the Google organic search results for a particular query and that link ended up giving a 404 Error. The Yoast post meant something to me then.

Anyway, long story short, I went back and found this article and installed the 404.php code from the article and viola!

Well anyway, see for yourself…  http://clickkinetics.com/archives/9 (The outdated url with the new useful 404 Error page which automatically provides the reader with a link to the correct former page with new url).