Rank math redirection

I am explaining my question properly:

1)I want to redirect 26 to 30 irrelevant blog posts through 301 so which action should I do first (Should I deindex or delete my old posts then redirect or redirect my old posts on new URL then deindex or delete my old posts? And Is it necessary to deindex or delete old posts?). And what should be the deindexing or deleting method of old posts, should I simply press the delete button from WordPress for deleting the old posts or remove the URLs from the Google search console or use 410 code for deleting, or all three methods should I follow? And after how many days should delete or deindex the old blog posts (in case you recommend deleting the old posts after 301 redirections?)

2)Will I need to resubmit my sitemap in the google search console after 301 redirections? Or remove the 301 code manually from the sitemap or both?

3)What manual actions should I take after 301 redirections?

4)Will it be any canonical issue in this 301 redirection in my case?

5)Will my website slow after 301 redirections through the plugin? If I do this 301 redirection through .htaccess, will my website perform better?

6)Should I do redirection through the “Redirection tab” or redirect individual posts (where the redirection option in each post). Is there any difference between these two methods?

7)I read somewhere If I do redirection through a plugin, redirection exists in the database. I occasionally optimize or clear my database (unnecessary database files) through the wp rocket plugin, will I not able to optimize my database after 301 redirections?

First of all, thank you so so much Ankit for clarifying everything that I asked.

I am highly grateful to you, it is really a great help you provided me today.

Since all my posts are irrelevant so I want to delete them all after redirection. It is a great idea to set “Noindex tag” in each post and later delete the posts from the website by pressing the delete button (You explained above). I convinced and satisfied these two things.

But

How can I remove post URLs after redirection or redirected URLs from the google web search console removal because after redirection the same URLs will be reached the new destination. So it is like I will remove the new UrLs from google search console removal. How it is possible? Please guide me if I misunderstood something.

Thank you very much for your previous help.

Hello Ankit, Thanks for the reply.

1. 410 redirect is something when you want to delete your posts instead of redirecting them to a new post. I want to redirect my old posts (On a new post by a 301 redirect) and delete those. So 410 is not for me I guess.

2. And removing the old URLs from the removal tool after deleting the posts is not a great idea in my case. Because I will redirect old posts on the new one so there is no need to delete them from the search engines. When someone clicks on the old URLs, the user will get the new Url.

My scenario should be:

1. First delete the old posts then redirect them on the new Url by 301 redirection.

2. No need to do 410 redirection.

3. No need to do Url removals from google websearch console removal or search engine.

Am I right?

Hi Ankit

1. Will I reverse my redirects if anything bad happens to my website?

2. For backing up all the redirects, the article suggests that export the .htacces file (if you have an Apache server), export to the Nginx config file (if you have an Nginx server). My hosting company says that they have both Apache and Nginx server. What should I do in that case?

3. Is rank math redirections doesn’t add redirection code in the .htcaccess file? I am asking because there is an option “Sync to .htaccess” under the export tab. What is this option mean?

4. My blog is 2.5 years old. Why I am not seeing any Url in the desktop version in Google search console (under the core web vitals, no good URL, no poor URL, nothing). I am getting the traffic from the desktop, I checked in the Google search console.

In the mobile version, there are 29 URLs.

What could be the problem?

I am asking you the last question because I switched rank math from Yoast. Maybe the problem arose at that time. I didn’t notice this problem before and after the switch. I got it a few days ago. If you can provide me the solution to this, I would be highly grateful to you.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the reply.

1. All my redirections have completed yesterday. I exported.htaccess file for backup of redirections.

But there is no “Sync .htaccess file” option under the export tab. How can I perform this action? And is it really necessary to “Sync the .htaccess file”?

2. As shown in the screenshot, there are red and yellow lines in a desktop version in core web vitals. When I click on the red line, it shows 31 poor URLs on 29 march 2021 and when I click on yellow URLs, it shows 31 URLs need improvements on 1 April 2021. And as you can see in the screenshot, there are no lines or data after that. What could be the issue?

In March and April there are poor or improvement URLs and after that 0 URL?