Changing URL's

mistifarang · April 7, 2011

Hi!

I'm a bit stuck. I want to (re)organize my album a bit.
When I'm starting with this it seems that I have to realize that all links I provided to other people, sites or links made by interested outsiders shall be lost which is very annoying. It means I have to accept that or leave the album as it is without being able to renovate a bit in order to keep al the historical grown links alive. (?)

Stupid enough I made yesterday such a step and saw that the gallery-views felt from more than 600 until almost zero, which is, for me, a big deal!

Hikin' Mike · April 8, 2011

Normally it's not a big deal to set up a "Redirect(s) 301" in your '.htaccess' page and upload that file to your root directory. Not sure if Smugmug has the capability though.

jfriend · April 8, 2011

Give us some examples of old URLs and new URLs after reorganizing. There are many cases on Smugmug where as long as the gallery number stays the same, the URL might keep functioning even if the category changes.

If you want unchanging links to send out, you can use vanity URLs that you control where they redirect to.

FYI, changing URLs can also mess with SEO.

pgman · April 8, 2011

jfriend wrote: »

Give us some examples of old URLs and new URLs after reorganizing. There are many cases on Smugmug where as long as the gallery number stays the same, the URL might keep functioning even if the category changes.

Sorry to butt in, but I did reorganize some categories and the photos to come-up through the links even with the "wrong" category.

Thanks guys

mistifarang · April 9, 2011

moving galleries / subs

jfriend wrote: »

Give us some examples of old URLs and new URLs after reorganizing. There are many cases on Smugmug where as long as the gallery number stays the same, the URL might keep functioning even if the category changes.

If you want unchanging links to send out, you can use vanity URLs that you control where they redirect to.

FYI, changing URLs can also mess with SEO.

Here is an example of the result of moving a sub into a gallery.
“Jakarta 1977” (Old gallery closed, creating a new sub and moving the existing photos to the new sub)
Theold link directs me now to the page for creating a new gallery
and the link to the (old) gallery
http://www.antoni-uni-photography.com/Indonesia-old-indonesia-tonuni/Jakarta-1977/Indonesia-jakarta-tonuni/11350703_ABDKa#797203089_swZAj
links me now to the main page of the album

after “normal” moving of the photos into the newly created sub
new link
http://www.antoni-uni-photography.com/Indonesia-old-indonesia-tonuni/Java/JAKARTA/16535796_oYoz7#797203114_jTutR

jfriend · April 9, 2011

mistifarang wrote: »

Here is an example of the result of moving a sub into a gallery.
“Jakarta 1977” (Old gallery closed, creating a new sub and moving the existing photos to the new sub)
Theold link directs me now to the page for creating a new gallery
and the link to the (old) gallery
http://www.antoni-uni-photography.com/Indonesia-old-indonesia-tonuni/Jakarta-1977/Indonesia-jakarta-tonuni/11350703_ABDKa#797203089_swZAj
links me now to the main page of the album

after “normal” moving of the photos into the newly created sub
new link
http://www.antoni-uni-photography.com/Indonesia-old-indonesia-tonuni/Java/JAKARTA/16535796_oYoz7#797203114_jTutR

If you just recategorized the existing gallery (you can change category and sub-category settings in gallery settings with moving images or deleting galleries) the old gallery links probably would have still worked, but you moved the image to a new gallery and deleted the old gallery - there's no way the old links will continue to work because you deleted that gallery.

mistifarang · April 10, 2011

thanks!

jfriend wrote: »

If you just recategorized the existing gallery (you can change category and sub-category settings in gallery settings with moving images or deleting galleries) the old gallery links probably would have still worked, but you moved the image to a new gallery and deleted the old gallery - there's no way the old links will continue to work because you deleted that gallery.

thanks so much John!

I am not very experienced in Smugmug and all the possibilities around.

I'll start making a new test.

Changing URL's

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