How to redirect all incoming search engine landings to a single page?

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  • Julie

    1 week, 5 days ago

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    My name is John Pierpoint, the partner of Julie Hatton, who owns this account.
    Sadly, Julie died in May last year. She wanted me to take over her online design training business (and I have Letters of Administration confirming that I can do this, if you need to see them).
    During this period, I am unable to process new customer enquiries, so I want to redirect them to a WordPress post that explains the situation.
    Her site receives visitors that find her services via search engines. They land on specific pages, and therefore often do not see the post with the message.
    I am new at WordPress. My web design experience to date has been with old-fashioned HTML and my own sites have been rather primitive.
    I’ve read through your article on redirects, but I can’t see if there is a way of redirecting incoming traffic to ALL pages to a single WP post, except by adding every URL to the redirection control.
    So my question is: is there a wildcard method that would do the same thing? It may be that this is mentioned somewhere in the article, but I can’t see it. Ideally I’d like to be able to redirect incoming traffic to this page, but still allow visitors to browse all the pages (including those redirected) once they have seen the message post.
    Apologies if this is a silly question. I’m not a web developer and WordPress and RankMath are both new to me.

    Regards,

    John Pierpoint

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  • RankBot

    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hello John Pierpoint,

    Thank you for reaching out with your question about redirecting all incoming search engine landings to a single page on your WordPress website. I’m sorry to hear about the passing of Julie Hatton.

    To redirect all incoming traffic from search engines to a single WordPress post, you can use the Rank Math plugin. While Rank Math does not have a wildcard method for redirections, you can achieve this by setting up individual redirects for each landing page to the desired post.

    Here’s how you can do it:

    1. Install and activate the Rank Math plugin on your WordPress website if you haven’t already.
    2. Navigate to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Redirections.
    3. Click on the Add New button to create a new redirection.
    4. In the Source URL field, enter the URL of the landing page you want to redirect.
    5. In the Destination URL field, enter the URL of the WordPress post that explains the situation.
    6. Select the 301 Permanent Redirect type.
    7. Click on the Add Redirection button to save the settings.

    Repeat these steps for each landing page you want to redirect to the single post. This way, visitors arriving from search engines will be automatically redirected to the designated post.

    If you encounter any difficulties or have further questions while setting up these redirects, please feel free to ask for assistance. We are here to help you navigate through this process.

    Warm regards,
    Rank Math Support Team

    Sources:
    How to Redirect Posts After Changing URLs » Rank Math
    How to Fix “Duplicate, Google Chose Different Canonical than User” » Rank Math
    WordPress Permalink Structure & Changing Individual URLs » Rank Math
    How to Set Up Redirections » Rank Math
    How to Remove a Specific Word From Your Permalinks (URLs) » Rank Math

    This is an automated reply from Rank Math Support Bot. Your ticket has been assigned to a human agent and we will get back to you shortly.

    Julie

    1 week, 5 days ago

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    I’ve found a plug-in that lists all URLs in the site. Now at last I stand a chance of doing this!
    So it looks like I can now use RankMath’s CSV import method to do redirects. I’ve found your tutorial page on setting up a CSV, so I’ll try that.

    Julie

    1 week, 5 days ago

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    I think I’ve found an easier and quicker way to do it: all the various training pages lead to “request a quote” or “Booking training” pages, so I probably only need to redirect those pages to be effective. This won’t affect SEO either.
    I’ll give it a try. . .

    Reinelle

    1 week, 5 days ago

    Hello,

    Sure, let us know how this goes.

    Alternatively, you can use our redirect feature with regex or contains method:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/setting-up-redirections/#contains

    If you can share some of the URLs you wanted to redirect, we can try to assist you so we can check if we can create a redirect that captures all the URLs (wildcard) instead.

    Looking forward to helping you.

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