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Hi, this is Betsy from Blackbaud.
In this video, we're going to discuss how to use the URL redirect
section to create 301 redirects.
301 redirects reroute web traffic from old URLs to new pages on
Blackbaud website without losing search engine rankings for the web pages.
To start, let's go to URL redirects.
The grid displays the 301 redirects for your website.
When website users browse to URLs in the Redirect this page column, the program
uses 301 redirects to reroute them to the corresponding URLs
in the To this page column. To create a redirect, click New redirect. Then enter
the URL to redirect in the Redirect this page field. Make sure to
enter the full URL, including a protocol such as "http" at the start.
Under To this page,
select whether to reroute users to a page on your Blackbaud site or to a
page on an external site.
Then enter the URL where you want to reroute website users. After you click
Save the new redirect is included in the grid. 301 redirects are useful when
you migrate to your Blackbaud website from an existing domain that you own because
they allow you to preserve page ranks and maintain back links for URLs on
your old website.
When you reroute traffic from a website domain you own, make sure to point the domain
at Blackbaud Internet Solutions so it receives incoming requests.
If your old site is hosted somewhere else on a different server and does not
run through Blackbaud Internet Solutions, it does not create redirects because the program
cannot receive incoming requests.
After you set up redirects, you can download them into a Microsoft Excel
spreadsheet. Click Export CSV and select a location where you want to save
your spreadsheet.
If you edit redirects in a spreadsheet,
you can also click Import CSV to upload changes.
On the Import CSV screen, select whether to add new entries alongside the
existing redirects or overwrite the redirects in the program.
Then select the spreadsheet to import.
The file you import must have the original URL in the first column
and the redirect target URL in the second column.
Also, the first row should not include a redirect because the program
reserves this for headers. That's all for this demonstration. To learn more about
301 redirects, check out the Administration Guide and the program's
help file. Thanks for watching!