301 redirects

ShopWired's 301 redirects system allows you to create 301 redirects by uploading a CSV (spreadsheet) file to your ShopWired account containing a list of old URLs and their corresponding new URLs.

Create a spreadsheet containing 2 columns, Old URL and New URL, and place each individual redirect on a new row.

1. Do not include your domain name or the protocol (i.e., http/https)
2. Only enter the final part of the URL as shown in the example above
3. Do not include any file extensions in old URLs (e.g., .asp, .html, .php)

Once you've created your spreadsheet, save it as a CSV (Comma delimited .csv) file or when using an Apple as a Windows Comma Separated (.csv) file.

URLs cannot contain special characters (for example: ø, ü, é). If your URL does contain special characters, you will first need to change that character to the URL code for it.

To obtain the URL code for special characters, you can use a tool such as Graphemica. On their website, select the special character you need to use and under Code copy the URL escape code. For each instance of the special character in your URL, you will need to replace it with the URL escape code.

Alternatively, you can ask AI to help you.

1. Within your ShopWired account, navigate to Website Settings > 301 redirects
2. Select the CSV file containing your redirects in the file upload section
3. If you have already set up 301 redirects and would like to replace any existing 301 redirects, select the replace existing redirects setting
4. Select the upload redirects option

You can download your existing 301 redirects by navigating to Website settings > 301 redirects and selecting the download existing 301 redirects option.

On ShopWired, 301 redirects are domain name independent. This means that you can test whether 301 redirects are working before your ShopWired website goes live on your domain name.

To test a 301 redirect, simply visit the full old URL in your browser, e.g., https://www.yourdomain.com/old-url, and check that you are redirected to the new URL, e.g., https://www.yourdomain.com/new-url.

If your domain name isn't live yet on ShopWired, visit the old URL in your browser using your ShopWired temporary domain name, e.g., https://temporary-domain.myshopwired.com/old-url.

ShopWired does not provide a domain name redirect service, so it isn't possible to use ShopWired to automatically redirect requests from https://www.olddomain.com/* to https://www.newdomain.com/*.

To set up a domain-wide redirect, you should contact your domain name provider and ask them to set up the old domain as a website forwarding domain.

The option remove the query string from the original URL before matching it to a redirect affects how visits to URLs containing query strings are handled by ShopWired's 301 redirect system.

1. When the setting is not selected:
   • If an old URL includes a query string:
   • Visits to the old URL need to include the exact query string to be redirected.
   • Visits to the old URL not including the exact query string will not be redirected.
   • If an old URL does not include a query string:
   • Visits to the old URL that include a query string will not be redirected.
2. When the setting is selected:
   • If an old URL includes a query string:
   • Visits to the old URL that include a query string will not be redirected.
   • Visits to the old URL not including a query string will not be redirected.
   • If an old URL does not include a query string:
   • Visits to the old URL that include a query string will be redirected, and the query string will be appended to the new URL.
   • Visits to the old URL not including a query string will be redirected.

This setting ensures that visitors arriving on a page URL where a query string is included are properly redirected to the new URL with the query string appended to the new URL.

For example, if the setting is selected and the old URL is specified as old-product-url, and the new URL is specified as new-product-url:

• A visitor arriving at old-product-url will be automatically redirected to new-product-url
• A visitor arriving at old-product-url?gclid=12345 will be automatically redirected to new-product-url?gclid=12345.