<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n1. Restructuring Site<\/strong> – Quite often, web admins need to restructure their website to make it easy to crawl for search engines, and help users browse content. While doing do, they will need to move one or more subfolders from one location to another. In such cases, you will need to redirect subfolder, to redirect users as well as search engines from old URLs to new URLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n2. Update Content<\/strong> – You will need to redirect all URLs in a subfolder if its content is outdated and you have created a new subfolder with fresh content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n3. Subdomain to Subfolder<\/strong> – Often web admins redirect subdomain content (e.g. blog.site.com) to its own subfolder (e.g. site.com\/blog) to get better SEO authority. In such cases, you need to redirect to subfolder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n4. Handle Deleted Subfolder<\/strong> – If you have completely deleted a subfolder for some reason or the other, then you will need to redirect its URLs to home page or elsewhere to avoid 404 page not found error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n5. Canonicalization<\/strong> – Sometimes, URLs on a website work both with and without trailing slash. This can affect your SEO since search engines may see it as duplicate content. So you may need to redirect URLs with trailing slash to those without, or the other way round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n