What happens when extensive changes are made to the page structures?
Extensive editing work on website structures usually has far-reaching consequences that are easily overlooked:
You change the URL of the page and all subpages every time you rename and move a page!
The URLs for links to pages within the Typo3 installation are automatically updated when renaming and moving pages.
Links from outside to pages whose URL has changed will point to nothing and cause a 404 error. (Example: a university portal links to your site)
Let the operators of these pages know that the URLs of your pages have changed. This does not happen automatically!
How can you find the websites that link to your website? Simply enter the URL of the page in the search slot of a search engine. The results will show the pages that link to this URL.
Swapping content instead of swapping pages
for pages with many inbound links
If you create an entire new subtree and simply want to replace it after completing your editorial work, then all internallinks in the old page tree will point to nothing.
Finding internal links
Before you decide to replace entire sub-trees, please take a look at which of your pages or content elements are linked to from other pages. You can see this by right-clicking on the icon of a page or content element and selecting the "Info" menu item. All elements that link to this page or content are shown at the bottom of the pop-up window.
Be sure to inform the editors of the internally linking websites that the link target has changed within Typo3.
Keep page, replace content
If there are a lot of internal links to your page and these are not your editorial responsibility, it can be useful to prepare the new content in a separate area and then replace it with the old content on the page. A powerful tool for this is the list view in combination with the clipboard. The HHU offers very good instructions
Forwarding
after major restructuring
Send a redirect log to rz-typo3(at)rptu.de if many URLs of your pages have changed. We will temporarily redirect the old URLs to the new URLs. Please do this after the conversion work has been completed and at least with your most important page URLs.
However, the redirects do not replace the information to the linking website operators. They bridge the time that search engines or linking websites need to adapt the URLs of their links.
When to submit forwarding protocols?
Maintaining redirects is time-consuming for us web administrators because we cannot simply adopt the format and content of your redirects.
We are therefore happy to accept redirect protocols for larger changes such as relaunches or larger changes. However, we will not make redirects for occasional, individual URL changes by changing a page title.
Remember that you yourself can influence the URL of a page (slug) by setting its URL segment. This allows you to compensate for changes in the page title, for example.
Download
URL forwarding protocol
- Vorlage_URL_Weiterleitungen.csvDownload 256 B
- Vorlage_URL_Weiterleitungen.xlsxDownload 11 KB