In this guide, you will learn how to create alternative links (URLs) for blog posts in the Webnode editor. This feature is useful for creating shorter and more user-friendly links for your visitors while keeping the original URL active. Alternative links are redirected to the original blog post URLs. Such redirection is SEO-friendly and is known as a 301 redirect.
Example of use:
Your blog post has the URL “website.com/my-old-link-on-the-web” in the editor, but you would like to use and share “website.com/my-link” without making a direct change in the editor.
In the past (for example, on a website hosted by another provider), you had a post with the URL “website.com/directory/my-original-link-on-the-web” and now you have a new blog post “website.com/new-link” with the same content. By setting up an alternative link, visitors using the old address will be redirected to the new blog post.
How to set up alternative links:
1. In the editor, click Blog posts in the upper left corner.
2. Select a post and open the Blog post SEO settings section.
3. Scroll down to the URL redirect section and enter the alternative link you want to redirect to this post.
4. Publish the changes.
TIP: If you want to create alternative links for products or individual website pages, you can also see our articles How to set an alternative URL for products and How to set an alternative URL for individual website pages.
