.htaccess help – 301 redirects not working

Okay. I did that like so, but am still not getting the redirects to work. Am I still doing something wrong?

# begin 301 redirects for blog/website

Redirect 301 /seo-copywriting-services/professional-small-business-blogger-service/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/professional-small-business-blogger-ghostwriter-service/

Redirect 301 /seo-copywriting-services/professional-ghostwriting-service/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/business-copywriting-services/professional-ghostwriting-service/

Redirect 301 /why-and-how-to-become-a-thought-leader-through-blogging/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/how-to-become-a-thought-leader-by-blogging/

Redirect 301 /am-i-a-good-fit-for-you/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/are-my-b2b-copywriting-services-a-good-fit-for-you/

Redirect 301 /about-freelance-copywriter-in-chicago/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/about-B2B-copywriter-Dan-Stelter/

Redirect 301 /website-copywriting-service-portfolio/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/b2b-copywriting-portfolio/

Redirect 301 /test-url/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/b2b-copywriting-portfolio/

# Set PHP handler to application/x-httpd-phpbeta on Mon Jan 11 22:51:53 MST 2016.
AddHandler application/x-httpd-phpbeta .php

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

# deflector.map text file that redirects unwanted referral traffic back to the source

RewriteMap deflector txt:/public_html/freelancewriterinchicago/deflector.map
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !=””
RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} =-
RewriteRule ^ %{HTTP_REFERER} [R,L]

# End deflector map

# Begin blocking irritating IPs from Google Analytics – doesn’t seem to work

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?4webmasters\.org [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?trafficmonetize\.org [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?100dollars-seo\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?free-share-buttons\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?site3.free-share-buttons\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?site4.free-share-buttons\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?site6.free-share-buttons\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?best-seo-offer\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?free-social-buttons\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?event-tracking\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?buttons-for-your-website\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?guardlink\.org [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?get-free-traffic-now\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?buy-cheap-online\.info [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(www\.)?badreferrers\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) – [F]

# end annoying IPs

I’m sure I’m doing this wrong. Where should the backticks go?

Like so:

# begin 301 redirects for blog/website

Redirect 301 /seo-copywriting-services/professional-small-business-blogger-service/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/professional-small-business-blogger-ghostwriter-service/

Redirect 301 /seo-copywriting-services/professional-ghostwriting-service/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/business-copywriting-services/professional-ghostwriting-service/

Redirect 301 /why-and-how-to-become-a-thought-leader-through-blogging/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/how-to-become-a-thought-leader-by-blogging/

Redirect 301 /am-i-a-good-fit-for-you/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/are-my-b2b-copywriting-services-a-good-fit-for-you/

Redirect 301 /about-freelance-copywriter-in-chicago/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/about-B2B-copywriter-Dan-Stelter/

Redirect 301 /website-copywriting-service-portfolio/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/b2b-copywriting-portfolio/

Redirect 301 /test-url/ http://www.freelancewriterinchicago.com/b2b-copywriting-portfolio/

At the beginning and end of the code block there? Or how? Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks for your help everyone. It turned out to be a quirk with Bluehost. You have to use their redirect tool through cPanel.

And the syntax to redirect ended up looking like this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^freelancewriterinchicago\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.freelancewriterinchicago\.com$
RewriteRule ^test\-url\/$ “http\:\/\/www\.freelancewriterinchicago\.com\/b2b\-copywriting\-portfolio\/” [R=301,L]

So I’d recommend getting a hold of their support team if you need to do 301 redirects at Bluehost.