Improved Stub Weblog Using Search Preferences Features

I've been advising people to use a stub blog, when renaming (changing the URL of) a blog, for a few years.

Hey folks, this spider web log has moved to http://mynewblogspoturl.blogspot.com.

That's a stub postal service - together with a blog, containing exclusively a stub post, is a stub blog.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 stub spider web log is a compromise, based on the Blogger anti-spam policy which prevents Blogger blogs from automatically redirecting from an quondam URL to a novel URL.

• The stub postal service replaces the master copy page - non the private postal service pages, non archive retrievals, label searches, etc.
• The stub postal service contains a minimum of information.

The stub postal service is only ameliorate than nothing.

But now, mayhap you lot tin sack render something a fleck ameliorate than a elementary stub post, to allow your readers know that your spider web log at nowadays has a novel URL.

Part of the of late offered Search preferences features include a twosome of redirection options. This won't eliminate the anti-spam policy - you lot yet can't redirect exterior the base of operations spider web log URL - but you lot can, maybe, improve redirection within the base of operations spider web log URL.

• Custom Page Not Found.
• Custom Redirects.

Custom Page Not Found

If you lot intend close it, a stub postal service is actually exactly a fancy "Page Not Found" post, hosted on the master copy page. If all pages within the spider web log only redirect forthwith to a "Page Not Found" display - together with if you lot tin sack brand the display expect similar it's designed equally role of the blog, together with then you lot bring a ameliorate stub post.

• You tin sack brand the stub postal service to a greater extent than relevant to your readers.
• You tin sack brand the stub postal service forthwith visible - for private postal service pages, archive retrievals, label searches, etc - also equally for master copy page access.

And, a ameliorate stub postal service makes a ameliorate stub blog.

Custom Redirects

If you're yet non satisfied alongside the unmarried stub postal service approach, you lot tin sack redirect specific URLs, within the blog, to other URLs within the blog. If you lot bring identified private posts, specific label searches, etc that operate past times lots of visitor traffic, you lot tin sack redirect those page URLs to pages or posts that render to a greater extent than specific data than the custom (but yet generic) "Not Found" stub post.

Specific traffic sources - high traffic pages, posts, label searches, etc - may justify something ameliorate than the generic stub post.

Both the Custom Page Not Found together with Custom Redirects options are role of "Errors together with redirections" inwards Settings - "Search preferences", inwards the New Blogger GUI.

You can't redirect whatsoever quondam spider web log URLs to the novel spider web log URL - fifty-fifty alongside the novel Search preferences features - but you lot tin sack operate past times inwards easier for your viewers to empathize that your spider web log has moved - together with mayhap link directly, from individualised stub posts, to specific URLs within the novel blog. And, you lot tin sack exercise whatsoever of this, whatsoever fourth dimension it's convenient.

• Setup the original, master copy page sentiment based stub post, immediately.
• Setup a Custom "Page Not Found" stub post, later.
• Setup private Custom Redirects, equally you lot position whatsoever high traffic unmarried postal service activity.

It's your blog, together with it's your decision.

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Custom Redirects Allow You Lot Modification Pages Or Posts, Together With Let On Dissimilar Urls

We've been quest for the mightiness to convey post URLs that differ from the post service titles, for approximately time. Now, nosotros convey the Custom Permalinks feature, available inwards the New Blogger GUI Posts Editor, for novel posts.

Some people would similar to live on custom permalinks for existing posts - together with for pages. We tin create that, likewise - only non yesteryear using Custom Permalinks. Custom Permalinks exclusively plant for novel posts - together with non for pages.

To alter the permalink for existing pages together with posts, nosotros live on the Custom Redirects option, inwards the "Settings" bill of fare nether "Search preferences".

This post service was published as

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/custom-redirects-let-you-modify.html

If I had used the "Permalink" pick earlier publishing, I could convey entered

new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom

and published

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom.html

If I desire to alter the URL of an existing page or post, I would live on "Custom Redirects".

To address this post service as

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom.html

instead of

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2012/07/custom-redirects-let-you-modify.html

I would live on "Custom Redirects", and

1. Enter "From:" equally "/2012/07/custom-redirects-let-you-modify.html".
2. Enter "To:" equally "/2012/07/new-blogger-gui-gives-us-custom.html".
3. Select "Permanent".
4. Click the "Save" link.
5. Hit the "Save changes" button.

Note that Custom Redirects, different Custom Permalinks, lets you lot alter the published calendar month together with yr ("/2012/07/"), together with the extension (".html"). If you lot live on Custom Redirects, create this carefully.

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Redirecting Whatsoever Url Inward Your Blog, To Unopen To Other Url

In belatedly 2011, Blogger Engineering gave us a novel Blogger characteristic - the mightiness to redirect whatever URL inward a blog, to whatever other URL inward the blog.

Like whatever feature, nosotros works life an immediate role for it - something much requested, for a adept while. Other people guide maintain works life to a greater extent than uses for the redirection characteristic - too all the same others guide maintain works life confusion.

The syntax used inward the redirection "From" too "To" values is non ever obvious - too occasionally at that spot is confusion virtually what tin - too can't - survive done amongst redirection.

This is the URL of this post.

Using the redirection feature, I tin redirect precisely about other URL in this blog, to this post service - or conversely, I tin redirect the URL of this post service to precisely about other URL, in this blog.

You tin alone redirect within the blog.

Both the "From" too "To" values inward "Custom Redirects" convey whatever static weblog URL, less the base of operations URL of that blog. You cannot specify the base of operations URL - then all redirections will survive within the weblog itself.

You tin redirect the weblog abode page display, within the blog.

The initial role for the redirection characteristic (at least, for me) was to replace the Home page of the blog, amongst precisely about other page or post - possibly, this post.

From: /
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html

I could modify the Home page of this blog, to starting fourth dimension all novel readers on the Topics Index page.

From: /
To: /p/topics.html

You tin redirect 1 specific post service URL reference, within the blog.

If I was to modify the Title of this post, when re published, the URL would non change. If I wanted to modify the URL of this post, I could redirect the desired URL, to the actual URL.

From: /2012/12/redirecting-any-urls-in-your-blog.html
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html

You tin brand a shorter URL, for slow access within or exterior the blog.

If I want to let this post service to survive accessed from a shorter URL, I tin produce that. If yous click on the shorter URL (below), yous volition banker's complaint that yous all the same run across the longer URL inward the browser address window!

From: /redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
To: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html

I late created a shortcut to my Topics index, every bit "blogging.nitecruzr.net/topics".

From: /topics
To: /p/topics.html

And here is a demonstration of a custom redirect, to my magic post service virtually custom redirects.

From: /SimpleURL
To: /2013/01/blogger-magic-redirecting-url-in-your.html

Pick whatever 2 URLs, inward the same blog.

To buy the farm the "From" too "To" values for whatever redirection, I precisely convey whatever 2 URLs inward the same blog. Choose whatever 2 examples - 1 for "From", the other for "To".

• The Home page: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/
• A post: /search?q=
• A static page: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/p/topics.html
• A label search: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/search/label/Redirecting
• A shortcut URL: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/topics

And drib the base of operations URL: http://blogging.nitecruzr.net

Giving:

• The Home page: /
• A post: /2012/12/redirecting-any-url-in-your-blog-to.html
• A static page: /p/topics.html
• A label search: /search/label/Redirecting
• A shortcut URL: /topics

Having developed the proper "From" too "To" values, adding a "Custom Redirects" entry is elementary enough.

Make a cleaner "menu bar" display, if yous redirect the abode page.

Having setup a useful complement of Pages, too redirected the Home page, yous may want to take away the "Home" page tab. Just edit the Pages gadget, using the dashboard Layout wizard, or the on weblog quick edit prototype - non the dashboard Pages sorcerer - too de pick out the "Home" page.

H5N1 elementary example, showing the result, may survive seen inward my demonstration blog, Home Page Redirected To Label Search.

From: /
To: /search/label/Home%20Page

There are precisely about subtle limitations.

Note that a label search displays a fixed issue of xx posts, regardless of the "Show at most" / "Number of posts on principal page" setting. If this is a work for your blog, yous tin explicitly laid maximum label search size, using the "max-results" modifier inward the "To" value.

You may too want to remove the "Showing posts amongst label ..." notice, if yous similar a cleaner display. In my demonstration weblog (mentioned above), I did non produce this - to brand my examples to a greater extent than obvious.

The possibilities hither are endless. Just role mutual feel - too again, banker's complaint the limits on redirection.

Click here, for instructions. Note again, that the actual address, displayed inward the browser address window, volition non change. Note again: by design, yous cannot specify the base of operations URL - then all redirecting will survive within the weblog itself

Other than the latter limitations, though, this is a pretty powerful characteristic - when yous empathize the design.