Redirect page

Redirect function provides an easy-to-use method for the user who is looking to redirect visitors from the point of entry to another location. 

Note: Redirect should NOT be used if 3rd party search engines search results listed a page you recently renamed/removed and result in a 404 not found. See Troubleshooting for the proper method to handle this situation.

Configure the redirect

Follow these steps to create a redirect.

  1. Open/Edit the page that you want to redirect visitors to another location. If you do not have such page, simply create a new page.
    If you decided that you will create a new page for the redirect, we recommend you use "Redirect - PAGE NAME" as the Title of the page and put the real title in Navigation Title field. This will help in the future to distinguish the redirect/no-content page from the real page. 
  2. Click on Page Information at the upper left corner and then Open Properties to open the Properties panel.
  3. Switch to the Advanced tab.
  4. Scroll down to the middle to find Redirect field.
  5. Set up the link:
    1. For Internal link, use the Path Picker to select the page you want to redirect to
    2. For external link, paste the URL of non-A&S AEM site. Please note that the URL must be in full URL path that start with HTTPS://.
  6. Click Save (check icon) to save your progress.
  7. Publish the page when you're ready to make the page live.

 

Troubleshooting

3rd party search engines are listing pages on our site that are no longer exist, should I create a redirect for that?
You should not create a redirect because of the invalid links on the 3rd party search engine's search result page. This action will:

  • confuse the search engine's crawlers and could end up with a duplicated search result
  • generate a lot of unnecessary empty pages and slow down the system.

To properly handle a broken link on 3rd party search engines search result pages, we recommend you first submit a removal request to the 3rd party search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) and let the 3rd party search engines remove the incorrect search results from the listing. Second, give the search engines some time to re-crawl the site. Third, you can submit an add URL request to the 3rd party search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) to expedite the crawling process.