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If you are rebuilding, 

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recreating or redesigning
your website

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it is very likely that some of the

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urls will have changed.

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For example if I go this website of mine

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it used to have a url called contact-us

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but if i go to it now i get

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I get a 404 error page

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because the url today on the

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redesigned website is simply contact.

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Obviously its not good for people to keep

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seeing 404 error pages.

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AdminTools provides a utility

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that lets you automatically

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redirect those old urls

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to the correct new location.

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You will find this in the
tools section

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and it's called URL redirection.

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To create a new redirect

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click on the new button

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In the first field

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where it says existing url

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this is the url that exists

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on your current website

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that you are directing someone to.

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In my case it will

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be that new url contact.

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In the field marked new url

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this is the URL that we wish

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to redirect people from.

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So here I would enter
contact-us

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Because I want everyone who was 
typing in

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contact-us to be redirected 
to contact.

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If I now press save changes

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the url has been saved.

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To test this go back to your website

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and enter in the url that you

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are expecting people to type

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and you can see that I typed

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contact-us and it

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has been successfully redirected

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to contact.

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You should create new url
redirections

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for all the links that existed

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on your old site that have now

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changed on your current site.