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URL Redirect Mapper
A reference on how to plan a redirect map for a site migration — listing old URLs, their new destinations, and the redirect type to use for each.
How to Use URL Redirect Mapper
- 1List every old URL that needs to change, ideally pulled from your sitemap, analytics, and Search Console
- 2For each old URL, decide its new destination URL
- 3Assign the redirect type (typically 301 for permanent moves)
- 4Implement the redirects in your server config (e.g. .htaccess) or CMS, then test each one
Frequently Asked Questions
No — this page is an educational reference on how to plan a redirect map yourself; it doesn't build, store, or export a mapping table.
At minimum: old URL, new URL, and redirect type (usually 301 for permanent moves) — many teams add a status column to track which redirects have been implemented and tested.
Whenever URLs change during a site migration, a CMS switch, a URL-structure cleanup, or a domain change — every old URL that could still be linked to or indexed needs a planned destination.
Visitors and search engine crawlers hitting that URL will get a 404 error instead of being redirected, which can lose both traffic and any accumulated SEO ranking signals for that page.
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