URL Redirects

Every well maintained website evolves over time, due to changing business needs or changing search engine algorithms. We may want to prune URLs, change URL slugs, or combine multiple pages into one. But a website does not exist in isolation; a given URL may get bookmarks, back links, and is also linked to other pages on the same website over time.

Hence, we may want to add URL redirects on our website to prevent broken links, ensuring visitors and crawlers can still find what they're looking for.

On most website builders, a URL redirect is usually achieved by fiddling with server files, adding plugins, or using some rudimentary feature that not only does not work perfectly but also adds bloat to the website.

All of us who have built websites long enough, have seen how plugins add JavaScript redirects on WordPress websites. These url redirect implementations add bloat to a website, lead to redirects in sitemaps and internal urls.


- Gopal Hegde, CTO Konigle

For proper structure and SEO, a website sitemap shouldn’t have redirects, and internal references to a URL should not have redirects. Most website builder platforms do not automatically clean up the sitemap or replace the internal links with the redirect automatically, leading to a ton of manual and error-prone work for you.

Hence, we decided to build a 10x better user experience of creating and maintaining URL redirects when you build a website with Konigle.

Konigle has a native URL redirect routing feature that is conveniently available when you need it. It is highly performant and works automatically without adding bloat to your website.

When a page is deleted on your website, you will be given the option to "delete and create a redirect" within the same interface. This provides convenience for users as they only need to input the 'Redirect to' field when creating a URL redirect.

Aside from that, you also have a central dashboard that you can invoke by chatting with Tim to add and remove URL redirects, truly simplifying managing URL redirects on your website. 

[Upcoming Feature] Apart from this after a URL is redirected, all internal references of the URL are automatically replaced with the redirected URL, without you needing to manually replace any URL.