Redirect Gallery

Milli

So I made a bad call by setting the link to my portfolio as http://www.milanreed.com/05/Portfolio-2016/ and passing that around for a year.

I've updated it to http://www.milanreed.com/05/Portfolio

Is there anything I can do to catch the traffic going to the old link so visitors don't get the 404 page?

denisegoldberg

I'm not aware of a way to redirect the old link to the new.

You could create a page with the old URL that instructs viewers to click to the new URL.
You could update your 404 page to explicitly include a link to your new portfolio page.

I have several links on my 404 page, try this to see my example - http://www.denisegoldberg.com/IncorrectURL.

Milli

Thanks for your help Denise.

Jtring

Another approach might be to keep the old http://www.milanreed.com/05/Portfolio-2016/ folder around with nothing in it. You can then have the folder page contain a text box or whatever that describes the change and provides a link to the new place. Essentially, you tell the user how to do their own redirect.

That's the approach I used when I reorganized my site last month. It was a little more complicated than just changing names though. Among other things, I had one high-level folder that I emptied, distributing the galleries that were in it among five other high-level folders. The old folder is still there -- https://jtringl.smugmug.com/Browser/TouringNaturalPlaces -- but it has no galleries. The folder page has only some text and an "Items I Choose" folder content box pointing to the folders where the galleries now live.