If you are rebuilding,
recreating or redesigning your website
it is very likely that some of the
urls will have changed.
For example if I go this website of mine
it used to have a url called contact-us
but if i go to it now i get
a 404 erro page
because the url today on the
redesigned website is simply contact.
Obviously its not good for people to keep
seeing 404 error pages.
Admintools provides a utility
that lets you automatically
redirect those old urls
to the correct new location.
You will find this in the tools section
and it's called URL redirection.
To create a new redirect
click on the new button
In the first field
where it says existing url
this is the url that exists
on your current website
that you are directing someone to.
In my case it will
be that new url contact.
In the field marked new url
this is the URL that we wish
to redirect people from.
So here I would enter contact-us
Because I want everyone who was typing in
contact-us to be redirected to contact.
If I now press save and close
the url has been saved.
To test this go back to your website
and enter in the url that you
are expecting people to type
and you can see that I typed
contact-us and it
has been successfully redirected
to contact.
You should create new url redirections
for all the links that existed
on your old site that have now
changed on your current site.