yoast seo regex redirects example

here is the regex redirect rule you can use in Yoast SEO’s redirect manager to redirect URLs like /t/mytag to /tag/mytag.

In Yoast SEO Redirects:

1. Go to SEO -> Redirects.
2. Click on Add new redirect.
3. In the “Origin URL” field, enter:

   Code snippet

   ^/t/(.*)$
   

4. Make sure the “Regex” checkbox (or similar option indicating regex) for the Origin URL is checked.
5. In the “Redirect to URL” field, enter:

   /tag/$1
   

6. Choose the desired redirect type (usually 301 for permanent).
7. Click Add redirect.

Explanation:

• ^: Matches the beginning of the URL path.
• /t/: Matches the literal characters /t/.
• (.*): This is a capturing group.
  • .: Matches any character (except newline).
  • *: Matches the previous character (.) zero or more times. So, .* matches everything after /t/.
  • (): The parentheses capture the matched content (everything after /t/) so it can be used in the destination.
• $: Matches the end of the URL path. This ensures it only matches paths that exactly start with /t/ and contain nothing else before the end (preventing matching things like /t/something/else).
• /tag/$1: This is the destination URL.
  • /tag/: The new literal path start.
  • $1: This is a backreference to the content captured by the first capturing group (.*) in the Origin URL.

This rule will take whatever comes after /t/ in the original URL and place it after /tag/ in the new URL. Remember to test it after adding!