How to set Custom URL Redirections in blogger

If you are a blogger or involved in something similar like a job (you would probably be, that's why you are here) then you would find yourself in situations where you get error pages or 404 page not found or need some temporary solution for maintenance pages.

Then the best thing you can do is re-direct the URL that is sending visitors, who visited a 'URL A' to another desired 'URL B'.

The usual technical approach of redirecting a URL is absolutely very technical and it is beyond the normal understanding of a not so technical people.



But if you are using Blogger platform like me then you will find re-directing an URL damn easy because of custom URL re-direction tool.

You will find in this article how to re-direct URL from within your blog.

Before that let me tell you that there are 2 types of URL redirections. ->

1) 302 redirect- In this type of redirect we temporarily redirect an  
URL to another. If you are making some modification on your  
site or adding some thing then this type of redirection is for 
you.

And in this type of redirection URL value (link juice) or ranking power is not passed to the other URL.

Once you have done all the maintenance work or any other work, 
then remove this re-direction.

2) 301 redirect- This one is most suitable and preferred in terms of SEO. This is also called permanent re-direct as once you do this then all the ranking power of one link transfers completely to the other URL but because the custom re-direction is only confined to your own blog, you cannot use it in migrating your blog.  

This re-direct is highly recommended for permanent redirection.

There are other redirections also like meta redirection but those are out of the scope of this article.

Now let's see how to set custom re-direction in Blogger. In this guide, I will tell you how to do both 301 and 302 re-direction in Blogger, and it took me a lot of effort to configure and confirm how exactly to do 301 and 302 re-direction in Blogger.

1) log into your Blogger account.

2) Go to Settings -> Search preferences.

In the left section of blogger, dashboard go to the settings tab and choose Search preferences from there.


3) Get Under the Errors and redirection section.

  
Now, this is the tool which will do the coding for redirection.

Paste the link that you want to be re-directed in the from section. If your link is like "http://myblog.blogspot.com/mypage.html/"  then just put the part with bold font giving also a "/" at the end.

And in the to section also do the same, just pasting the name of the page to where you want to redirect.

After that, you have links in the spaces. Now it's time to decide whether you will have a 301 redirect or 302 and it's damn simple.

If you want it to be a 301 then select on the permanent box or if you want it to be 302 then left this permanent box unchecked.

Just that's it!

It's time now to hit the save changes, and now it is completed.

If after some time you want to remove the re-direction just delete this re-direction.


I hope this guide would help you understand all the aspects in URL redirection. If you have any doubts then fell free to comment below also let me know how did you like this post?