System-Generated Redirects | Yext Hitchhikers Platform
Automatic Redirects
These are redirects generated automatically by Yext in response to URL path updates for your live pages. Any time you have a template powered by a stream and the data in the stream changes for a given page the following steps will happen:
- The page will be republished at the new path.
- A redirect will automatically be created from the old path to the new, which is crucial for both SEO and user experience.
Example Scenario
Let’s say a business has an entity for a location in “New York City”.
The entity powers a live page, which is served at
locations.brand.com/nyc.The page’s path is powered by the slug field - which is set to “nyc”.
You update the slug field from “nyc” to “manhattan”.
Once the update is made in the Knowledge Graph, Yext republishes the live page with the updated slug:
locations.brand.com/manhattanand creates a redirect from “/nyc” to “/manhattan”.When a site visitor makes a request for “/nyc”, the user is redirected to “/manhattan”.