Help Needed, I made A BIG SEO mistake and need to redirect my blog

What is the name of the domain?

rayjgreen.com

What is the error number?

No error number

What is the error message?

No Error message

What is the issue you’re encountering

I need to understand if this is possible before I do it. Because I don’t want another screwup. I need to redirect Blog — Ray J. Green | Repeatable Sales, Marketing, & Delivery System to https://rayjgreen.com/post/article-name. Is this possible on the free version of Cloudflare?

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Nothing yet.

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

nothing yet.

A wildcard redirect should work:

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Thank you so much for answering!

And because there is a backslash after blog, it won’t redirect rayjgreen. com / blog right?

@meghan2 first you need to change the nameservers for the zone rayjgreen.com, at the moment they do not point to cloudflare.

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Yep, that’s the plan.

Then the wildcard will work?

Will this screw up my email at all??

Because I can’t have another disaster.
This was such a rookie 101 mistake that I’m super scared to move anything now.

That all depends on what you do with the records related to email. Make sure that you bring them all over. This may involve manual work to ensure that you have everything that you need. If your mailserver uses a hostname in your domain (e.g. mail.example.com, be sure that you set it to :grey: DNS Only.

Editing to add: I see that you use Google Workspace for email, so just be sure to bring over your MX records, and your DKIM, DMARC, and SPF records.

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But they are all in GHL, why do I need to bring them to Cloudflare?

They need to be wherever your authoritative nameservers are.

So they won’t go through Leadconnector/GHL anymore?

■■■■, which means propagation, and then dealing with making sure the email isn’t screwed up.
We’ve already moved the email once.

All I want to do is redirect the URLs. uck…

You may be confusing web traffic with DNS traffic, because none of your rayjgreen.com DNS goes through anywhere but GoDaddy right now.

If you are planning on using Cloudflare to redirect certain URLs, you will be moving your DNS from GoDaddy to Cloudflare. You gave an answer that suggested you were familiar with that. Is that not what you meant by the following?

You then followed that up expressing what appeared to be concerns about whether that change would impact email delivery. The answer to that is: no, as long as you prepare correctly ahead of time. Typically that is as simple as ensuring that your current DNS records are present in your Cloudflare DNS prior to updating the nameservers at your registrar.

If the GoDaddy nameservers and the Cloudflare nameservers contain identical records, there is no reason to be concerned about

Hopefully this has helped clarify my replies concerning your email continuity question.

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WOW! Thank you so much for this.

Apologies for the confusion, I’ve been in panic mode all day.
Yes I already have the DNS moved over.

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It didn’t work.

Here’s the old URL:
https://www.rayjgreen.com/blog/niching-down-outdated-strategy-or-marketing-goldmine

And the new URL:
https://www.rayjgreen.com/post/niching-down-outdated-strategy-or-marketing-goldmine

and the screen shot of how I set it up per the recommendation.

Next steps?

sorry this is the new url, and now the www. doesn’t work either.

It’s getting a redirect, but it’s not from that rule.

Do you have any other Redirect Rules, or Page Rules?

Yeah there is one in GHL that redirects to www.

But I can do that in Cloudflare too right?

www is also hitting some sort of redirect.

That Cloudflare Redirect rule will trigger before a GHS redirect. Please check your Cloudflare account for any other redirects. Your rule is a 301, but these unwanted redirects are 302s, so they have to be coming from somewhere that triggers before your new redirect rule.

I set this up today, after speaking with all of you.
Maybe 20 minutes ago.

There are not other redirects in Cloudflare.

On your DNS page here, are the two name servers at the bottom set to:
Name Server: JULISSA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: RODNEY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

And is your new redirect rule toggled Green Enabled?

Yes & Yes.