How to Import Redirects to Rank Math SEO - Rank Math SEO

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hi i'm kate i'm going to show you ranked math's fast and easy options to import your redirects from yoast seo premium other redirection plugins your clipboard or csv files use the timestamps in the description to jump to the one you need import from yoast or redirection plugins import in bulk straight from the redirections manager or import via csv file which is a rank math pro feature before we start the import from other plugins you will need to activate rank math we recommend deactivating the plugin you are using for redirections whether that is used or redirection to import the settings and data from either of those plugins head over to rank math status and tools in the import and export area scroll down a bit to the other plugins section in the yoast tab you can find all the settings that rank math can import from yoast make sure that the import redirections option is selected and then click on the import button if you use the redirections plugin this will be the only option available when you have multiple source urls to be redirected to a single destination url a simple way to import them is directly in the redirections manager in your wordpress admin panel navigate to rank math's redirections and click on add new now copy the list of urls with each url in a new line paste the list by right-clicking or use the keyboard shortcut ctrl v in windows and command v in mac each url will be added in a new row and you won't have to copy them individually now you can add the destination url and click on add redirection to create your redirection if you want to learn all about how to create redirections watch the video on the card rankmathpro users can import a csv file to create or update multiple redirections at once you can export existing redirections from your site and use spreadsheet software to edit the table that will be exported as a csv file open rank math's redirections manager and click on import and export at the top switch to the export tab and in the csv file section click on export csv then just open the table in your software of choice for this example we'll use google sheets since it makes collaboration from several team members easier if you're creating the table from scratch know that it needs to have at least one source and one destination for each redirection however it can also have all the information you would input in the redirection manager in source url and destination url you can just paste the part of the url that comes after the website's domain name id if the id already exists we will update the redirect instead of creating a new one if it's empty we will create a newer direction matching this column corresponds to the match type field in rank math's redirection manager the accepted values are exact contains start end and regex which stands for regular expressions type the accepted values are 301 302 307 410 and 451 rank math by default considers the status to b301 make sure not to have any urls in the target field if you choose 410 as this code means content deleted learn more about redirection types in the video that's on the card category this can help organize your redirections to easily manage them later if you add a category under this column that you hadn't created in your website rank math will create a new one and status which accepts the values active and inactive blank fields are considered active by default you can arrange the columns in any order to delete an existing redirect write delete in all caps since this is case sensitive under the destination column to add several source urls to the same destination just add new source urls in new lines and repeat the destination you can also do that in the csv file by adding the value in the json format the value must be an array of objects with pattern and comparison properties in case you want to read about creating and editing redirects using csv for other use cases check out the detailed knowledge base article that we've linked to in the description let's download the spreadsheet in csv file and return to wordpress open rank maps redirections manager and click on import and export at the top in the import tab click on choose a file select from your computer and click on the import csv button the process will begin immediately if this tutorial helped you give it a like if you have any questions click on the link in the description to open a free support ticket you can find more tutorials in our knowledge base at rankmath.com kb