Beginner's Guide

short description for your image. This is one more easy-to-use SEO enhancing feature that can provide
quick and relevant results.
Redirect for SEO Best Practice
Figure 6: Redirect Manager
In his article about 7 Redirects and SEO
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, Stephan Spencer, an SEO expert and blogger says the
following:
"Use of the proper kind of redirects is a matter of SEO “best practice”. Every site needs to have
redirects (e.g. for example, from your non-www version of your site to your www version or vice
versa). And if you don’t, you’re leaving money on the table. In addition, sites evolve over time and
URLs change. And any time you make changes to your URLs — whether it’s to the domain,
subdomain, subdirectories, filenames, or query strings — you need to ensure links pointing to the
old URLs are still valued by Google and the other engines, and that their voting power gets
transferred to the new URLs. "
Redirecting users from your old or non-existing pages, documents and other website assets to your
new ones can be done in 3 easy steps using Joomla’s native redirect component. It is user-friendly, has
zero learning curve, and the best part about it is that every time a web visitor hits a non-working page,
the component lists the problem url, as well as how many times it was clicked on. You can then swiftly fix
the problem by adding a new url to redirect future visitors to a page that works.
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http://www.stephanspencer.com/redirects-and-seo-best-practic