Title: Htaccess redirection is necessary?
Last modified: December 1, 2017

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# Htaccess redirection is necessary?

 *  Resolved [Infotam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infotam/)
 * (@infotam)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirection-is-necessary/)
 * Hi!
 * I have recently installed the free version of the plugin and everything seems
   to work fine. I wanted to know if it’s also necessary to make a redirection using
   htaccess or CPanel. I have seen that today the vists were lower tan usual and
   I was worried about SEO but I did the configuration in Google Analytics and Google
   Search Console.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Rogier Lankhorst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogierlankhorst/)
 * (@rogierlankhorst)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/htaccess-redirection-is-necessary/#post-9742552)
 * I recommend to enable the .htaccess redirect in settings/ssl. This improves the
   speed of redirection, but does not have any effect on SEO, as the default wp 
   redirect is also a 301 SEO friendly redirect.
 * Visits should bounce back after a couple of days.

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