SEO

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Create them manually in your .htaccess or your NGINX server config
While this is not for the faint of heart, it’s often one of the fastests methods available if you have the know-how and the access to do it.

Create them with a redirect plugin
There are several redirect plugins on the market, the most well known one being Redirection. This is a lot easier but has the disadvantage of being a lot slower as to do the redirect, the entire WordPress install has to load first. This usually adds half a second to a second to the load time for that particular redirect.

Create them with our Yoast SEO Premium plugin
Our Yoast SEO Premium plugin has a redirect module that allows you to make redirects with the ease of the WordPress interface, but also allows you to save those to your .htaccess file or an NGINX include file so they get executed with the speed of the first option above. It actually also has another few nifty options: you can get the 404 errors from Google Search Console straight in your WordPress install and redirect them straight away and it’ll add a nice button in your WordPress toolbar if you’re on a 404 page: