Best WordPress Redirect Plugin 2018: If you have migrated your content to another site recently or you changed your existing permalink structure you will face the 404 page not found errors through out your website. As you know broken links will cause a huge decrease in the overall website ranking and also a drop in your earnings. In order to avoid such a bad user experience and lose of income you should use a wordpress 301 redirect plugin. In this article I created a list of some of the popular and best wordpress redirect plugin available in the wordpress repository for free in 2018. These plugins can help you to implement 301 redirect, 302 redirect by 404 redirection.
LIST OF TOP 5 301 REDIRECT PLUGIN FOR WORDPRESS
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1.Redirection WordPress Redirect Plugin
With over 900,000 active installation ‘Redirection’ is the most popular wordpress 301 redirect plugin of all time. With this plugin you can easily keep track of 404 errors and implement 301 redirection. By doing this you can reduce the 404 errors in your site/blog and improve your site ranking.
Redirection Plugin Features & Download:
- Redirect Manager
- Conditional Redirects
- Full Logging
- Keep track on 404 errors
- Apache & NGINX support
- Import & Export options
Plugin Type: FREE
2.Simple 301 Redirects WordPress Plugin
With over 300,000 active installations Simple 301 Redirects WordPress Plugin stands at 2nd place in the list. Simple 301 Redirects will help you to easily pass the traffic from one URL to another URL in your site without losing it’s page rank/search rank.
Simple 301 Redirects Plugin Features & Download:
Visit official page for more details.
Plugin Type: FREE
3.Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin
Quick Page/Post Redirect is another popular redirect plugin in the wordpress repository. It has over 200,000 active installations. This plugin two kind of 301 redirects, 1. Quick Redirects and 2.Individual Redirects. Some features of ‘Quick Page/Post Redirect’ plugin is given below.
Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin Features & Download:
- Custom Post Types Support
- Redirect open in a new window/tab
- rel=”nofollow” support
- Redirect without needing to create a Page or Post using Quick Redirects.
- Import/Export of redirects for backup, or to add bulk Quick Redirects.
Drawbacks:
- This plugin does not have wild-card redirect features.
- This plugin DOES NOT modify the .htaccess file
- You cannot redirect the Home (Posts) page – unless you set a page as the home page and redirect that.
Plugin Type: FREE
4.SEO Redirection Plugin
SEO Redirection plugin can be used to 301 redirects in your website/blog. It will useful when you migrate your site or changed directory structure. Some of the newly added features of SEO Redirection plugin is given below.
SEO Redirection Plugin Features & Download:
- 301, 302, and 307 redirection support
- Wildcard redirect supported
- WPML Support
- Import/Export feature
- total hits to redirects counter
- automatically add 301 redirect when URL changes
- Advanced control panel
- redirect folders and all it’s content.
- Full logs for all redirected URLs
- Apache .htaccess is not required, works entirely inside WordPress
- Redirect index.php, index.html, and index.htm access
Plugin Type: FREE
5.Safe Redirect Manager
Safe Redirect Manager will help you to manage redirect by adding HTTP status codes in URL’s. It also supports multisite installations. This plugin comes with an easy-to-use UI allows you to add redirects in no time.
SEO Redirection Plugin Features & Download:
read plugin documentation for detailed features.
Plugin Type: FREE
This is the list of top 5 redirect plugin for wordpress in 2018 which supports wordpress 301 redirect, 302 redirect and 307 redirects. These plugins will help you to redirect 404 pages/posts to a new working URL.
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