Use these steps as a working checklist and adapt them to the project’s evidence, scope, and constraints.
Practical steps
- Enter one mapping per line as /old-path -> /new-path. Choose a relevant destination; do not send every removed page to the home page.
- Keep each source URL unique and choose the final page that serves the intended content. Prefer one direct redirect over a chain.
- Find duplicate sources, self-redirects, malformed URLs, and loops before launch.
- After deployment, test a sample and record the source URL, final URL, HTTP response, and check date. This browser tool never requests your site.