Redirecting bad links? Wordpress related.

[Mole_J]

Not sure if this can be done or if there is a handy plugin or way to correct this.

I was playing around with my blog today in the file manager of Cpanel. I was trying to change something around. Although, my blog worked correctly the actual address was http://molej.com/index . I was trying to move the files around to get rid of the index part. In the process, I lost everything on my blog.

I think the way I had it set up was hurting my SEO for my blog. So, since I had to start from scratch thought I would move everything to HostGator. Everything is much more user friendly than what I was using.

Here is my problem. I have well over 200 articles, videos, and social bookmarking sites linking to my old blog and if people click on the links, it will give them a unable to find website error.

Is it possible to get the bad link and redirect to my new blog address?

[Mole_J]

For those who are interested, I found a plugin for Wordpress that fixes the 404 error. Basically if the page has been moved it searches your site for similar keywords and send the person to that post.

If you have the same problem I did of redoing your post links names and have links to them in a bunch of places on the internet check out
Smart 404

http://michael.tyson.id.au/wordpress/plugins/smart-404/

[beckrl]

I was playing around with my blog today in the file manager of Cpanel. I was trying to change something around. Although, my blog worked correctly the actual address was http://molej.com/index . I was trying to move the files around to get rid of the index part. In the process, I lost everything on my blog.

The index part is an index that carry everything for the front page. If you remove the index file you will lose your front page.
Sorry that happened to you.

You may have been able to just change the blog address (url)in dashboard within the setting tab.

[MacUser]

Did you contact your site host and request a backup restored?

Simple easy and everything the way it was...

[Mole_J]

It was with a free hosting site called http://www.freehostia.com. I was using them basically because they were free and did not need to run ads on my site.

They may do a backup restore, but they are free, so I don't expect too much costumer service from them.

Anyway, I just moved on to http://www.hostgator.com for now. Been very happy with them so far. I love the new Wordpress, things are so much easier to load plugins and templates.