URL redirects

URL redirects can be used to redirect traffic from one web page to another. When you change a URL on your Shopify store, you can create a URL redirect to ensure your customers can still find what they're looking for.

For example, if you delete a product, you can set up a URL redirect so that when customers enter the URL for that product, they are redirected to a similar product on your store.

Tip

If you want to create a lot of redirects, you can simplify this process using an app.

Create a URL redirect

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings > Apps and sales channels.

2. From the Apps and sales channels page, click Online store.

3. Click Navigation**.

4. Click URL Redirects.

5. Click Create URL redirect.

6. In Redirect from, enter the old URL that you want to redirect visitors from.

   Only broken URLs should be redirected. Broken URLs might load a "page not found" placeholder message, or "404" might appear somewhere on the page or in the page title. If the URL still loads a valid webpage, then the URL redirect won't work.

   Note

   You can't redirect URLs that begin with the following prefixes: /apps, /application, /cart, /carts, /orders, /shop, or /services.

7. In Redirect to, enter the new URL that you want to redirect visitors to. If you want to redirect to your store's home page, then enter /.

   Note

   The new URL can be either a relative URL (for example, /collection/shirts) or a full URL (for example, http://www.example.com/collection/shirts). To redirect traffic within your primary domain, use a relative URL. To redirect outside your primary domain, use a full URL.

8. Click Save redirect.

Manage your URL redirects

You can manage your URL redirect list in the following ways:

• Filter URL redirects by date
• Save a URL redirect filter
• Delete a URL redirect filter
• Edit the name of a URL redirect filter
• Edit URL redirects individually
• Edit multiple URL redirects at the same time
• Export your URL redirects
• Import your URL redirects
• Delete URL redirects

Filter URL redirects by date

Steps:

1. Click Date added.
2. From the drop-down menu, choose the date period that you want to filter.

Save a URL redirect filter

Steps:

1. Create a filter using the search box or by filtering URL redirects by date.
2. Click Save filters.
3. Select a name for your filter.
4. Click Save filters. Filters are saved as a new tab at the top of the list.

Delete a URL redirect filter

Steps:

1. Select the filter that you want to delete.
2. Click Saved.
3. Click Remove tab, and then click Remove.

Edit the name of a URL redirect filter

Steps:

1. Select the filter that you want to edit.
2. Click Saved.
3. Edit the tab name, and then click Save filters.

Edit URL redirects individually

Steps:

1. Click the URL redirect that you want to edit.
2. Enter the changes.
3. Click Save redirect.

Edit multiple URL redirects at the same time

Steps:

1. Select the URL redirects that you want to edit.
2. Click Edit redirect.
3. Enter the changes.
4. Click Save.

Note

To find out more about editing multiple URL redirects at the same time, refer to using Bulk actions.

Export your URL redirects

Steps:

1. Click Export.
2. Choose which redirects you want to export.
3. Select which type of CSV file you want to export.
4. Click Export URL redirects.

Import your URL redirects

To import your existing URL redirects:

1. Click Import.
2. Click Add File and select a CSV file.
3. Click Upload file.
4. Review the import.
5. Click Import redirects.
6. Click Close.

Note

You can download and view a sample URL redirect CSV file to use as a template.

Delete URL redirects

Steps:

1. Select the URL redirects that you want to delete.
2. Click More actions.
3. Click Delete selected redirects.
4. Click Delete to confirm your decision.

Note

To find out more about deleting multiple URL redirects at the same time, refer to using Bulk actions.