What Is A Custom URL Redirect

Custom URL Redirect is an action with the help of which one URL is redirected or pointed to another URL. Let suppose a guest or a visitor is searching basic.com/search-this/ and server redirect him to another URL i.e basic.com/search-that/ where visitor is not effected by this whole action of URL Redirect. It is an action of server and executed by server itself. Therefore, the general users do not know about this. However, Blog owners themselves can inform or lead their followers and visitors about this function.

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How to Create a Custom URL Redirect in Blogger


The function of creating a custom URL redirect in blogger successfully strengthen and intensify relationship between the owner (Author) and visitor or reader. URL redirect is very crucial to point readers to an active page from deleted web-pages or updated URLs etc.


Why Custom URL Redirect Is Important? 

Blog owners should always redirect their deleted web-pages or updated URLs to an active URL. If a visitor comes through a website or blog and he searches his required information in that particular blog or website. Now while searching, he finds, what he wants and he further click the URL of that article, then he face an ambiguity and a page saying "error 404 - Page not found". So this is an irritating practice for visitors and also for search engines. Both visitors and search engines do not like this. This is the reason why all website and blog owners should redirect his visitors from deleted pages to an active and a live pages to engage his visitors and to rank high in search engines. Custom URL redirects may increase the visit time if it should be done in a good manner. Custom URL redirect is just like a real business we shift from one place to another. For example there is an electronic store in a city having a proper address and the owner has advertised his business in a good way. His business reputation is also very good in that city. After some time he shifts his electronic store (Business) to a new location and he does not want to leave his old customers then while shifting his business he also affix a piece of cloth, paper or panaflex saying "this business or store has been shifted to another address like as from abc to xyz". Now a customer visit this store and he will see this instruction about address shifting, immediately he will visit that new location where the store is situated. In this example the visitor and the business owner both are satisfied because the visitor is still in his favorite store and the owner did not lose his customer and the business is still sustained by the visitors as it was at old location. 


How To Set Custom URL Redirect In Blogger Blog?

1.  Login to your blogger blog.
2.  Select your blog you want to update settings for.
3.  If you own only one blog then skip this step because it is already selected.
4.  Select Settings from the left side menu.
5.  Scroll down until you see Errors and redirects.
6.  Click Custom 404.
     (a)  Write down a message for visitors and click Save.
7.  Now click Custom Redirects.
     (a)  Click ADD.
     (b)  In the From box write down the URL that you want to redirect.
     (c)  In the To box write down the URL to which you want to point the old URL.

How to Create a Custom URL Redirect in Blogger



For example your old URL is basic.com/URL-this/ and you want to point this to basic.com/URL-that/ , then write basic.com/URL-that/ here and the first one will be basic.com/URL-this/.
8.  Check Permanent box if this action is forever.
9.  Click OK.
10.Click Save.

Conclusion

Custom URL Redirect shows a great attitude and a positive approach towards visitors. It will also strengthen business and will engage customers. Custom URL Redirect in all cases is very crucial, otherwise "404 errors" pages will build negative impact of business in search engines as well as it will irritate visitors and in future they will never visit websites or blogs having "404 errors" pages without redirect to a live and active page. Thus it is very necessary to have suitable and appropriate URL redirect for all deleted web-pages or updated URLs to engage visitors.