Redirect List

Long Redirects

About

Admissions

Business Continuity Office

Business, Industry & Community

Campaigns

Classes and Degrees

Contact Us

Employees & HR

Events

Grants

High School Students

Maps and Locations

Misc

Paying for College

Police

Resources

Schools

Special Programs

Student Life

Students (Future and Current)

Website

About

Admissions

Applications

Areas of Study

Business and Industry

Catalog

Community

Contact Us

Dallas College Online

Employees

Events

Future Students

GPS

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Hope Center

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Misc

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Text Shortcuts

This has been copied over from SharePoint. Will need revision.

LongRedirects:

This is pretty straightforward. Old page path->new page path. The main thing to remember here is that you need to lowercase everything. This is what it looks like when you don't:

Status Code,Scheme,Host,Path
301,https://,www.dallascollege.edu,/paying-for-college/financial-aid/types/workstudy/Pages/criminal-background-check.aspx
301,https://,www.dallascollege.edu,/paying-for-college/financial-aid/types/workstudy/pages/criminal-background-check.aspx
301,https://,www.dallascollege.edu,/paying-for-college/financial-aid/types/workstudy/Pages/employment-policies.aspx
200,https://,www.dallascollege.edu,/paying-for-college/financial-aid/types/workstudy/pages/employment-policies.aspx
 
Search engines will generally give up and stop crawling at five "jumps." You've just created three without even trying.
Creating these extra jumps is also ultimately worse for load time. We already have a slow site. Don't do that.

This is what it looks like when you do it correctly:
Status Code,Scheme,Host,Path
301,https://,www.dallascollege.edu,/paying-for-college/financial-aid/types/workstudy/pages/criminal-background-check.aspx
200,https://,www.dallascollege.edu,/paying-for-college/financial-aid/types/workstudy/pages/employment-policies.aspx

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Page Deletion:
Redirects for page deletion won't work until the deleted page truly 404s. 
Unpublishing it does not work, because you can technically still access the page path (even though users will no longer see anything there.)
404s will kick in once that page path *literally stops existing.*
Sometimes if we've needed to keep the content but unpublish it, the workaround has been to rename the page to something like pagename_UNPUBLISHED.aspx. This is perfectly fine.

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RedirectList:
These are what we usually call "shortcuts." Without a full URL path (as in, www.dallascollege.edu/whatever), it will assume you want dallascollege.edu.
If you're creating a shortcut to a SharePoint page, just use the full SharePoint URL as the destination. You should be fine. This also works for the blog or anywhere else not-dallascollege.edu.

For shortcuts going to www.dallascollege.edu and blog.dallascollege.edu, I like to include UTM parameters.
For example, dallascollege.edu/academicplan redirects to /resources/ready/pages/account.aspx?utm_source=shortcut+url&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=shortcuts&utm_content=academicplan.

Notice the breakdown here -
/resources/ready/pages/account.aspx
?utm_source=shortcut+url
&utm_medium=redirect
&utm_campaign=shortcuts
&utm_content=academicplan

utm_content is the name of the shortcut. This is how you know which shortcut was being used. 
It's usually okay to C&P from old shortcut UTM parmeters - but you need to change that utm_content parameter.

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Special Note: TXT shortcuts
TXT shortcuts were created specifically and solely for Jourdain's team. Their parameters are just a little bit different from a regular shortcut.
For example, dallascollege.edu/accountingtxt redirects to     
/cd/credit/accounting/pages/default.aspx?utm_source=shortcut+url&utm_medium=sms+text&utm_campaign=signalvine&utm_content=accountingtxt.

Notice the breakdown here -

/cd/credit/accounting/pages/default.aspx
?utm_source=shortcut+url&
utm_medium=sms+text
&utm_campaign=signalvine
&utm_content=accountingtxt

For consistency purposes, it's really important to follow the format.