I’m archiving a lot of old products on my site at the moment but the hassle of url redirection is already becoming tiring. Am I missing a trick or method when doing this?
At the moment a product exists on a cannonical url like
mysite.com/products/the-product
However, it also exists in a collection eg mysite.com/collections/brandname/the-product
It also has an url in a range of other collections like size, colour, finish etc such as
mysite.com/collections/red-products/the-product and even sub links like mysite.com/collections/brandname/red-products/the-product
There could be dozens of different urls for a single product and while I’m redirecting the cannonical url to somewhere (in this case, the brand collection it was in) all the other urls now show a 404.
How do you go about redirecting all these?
Hi @welcomebrand
After reading your question here, I can feel that you have multiple 404 error links which are related each other, but under different categories on store end. The way of resolving this issue will depend if you would like to redirect them to the same target path or redirect them separately.
If you intend to redirect them to same path URL, you need to use WildCard Redirect and create rules to do the bulk redirection. I used one method shared from my colleagues which exist this function and you can have a try of using to see if works on your store.
If you intend to redirect them separately, do not hesitate to make redirection one by one from Shopify admin page directly. Though it takes time to accomplish them all, you will pay off and they will be visible and available to reach correctly.
If you still have confused parts after trying, you can feel free to let me know here also, take your time please!