Rapid301 uses a series of workflows and matching algorithms to compare every URL on the staging to site with each URL on the current site. This gives you the foundational redirect document. You can check the output in the powerful 301-Redirect Table to make any adjustments before exporting your redirects as a .csv or .htaccess file.

Yes! If you use Screaming Frog or have sitemaps in a .csv file, you can upload them and have Rapid301 process these. Use this CSV -> 301 Redirect tool.

You can simply input your Current Site Url and Staging Site Url into Rapid301 and it will crawl both sites to get the sitemap, then automatically process them. Or if you have used a tool like Screaming Frog to get the sitemaps, you can upload them directly using this CSV -> 301 Redirect tool.  

When you scan your site with Rapid301 it first gets your URLs from all of your sitemaps (from sitemap.xml and other nested sitemaps) and then does a HTTP crawl of your website. This is fast and efficient and suitable for most websites.

Rapid301 uses a blend of crawling methods based around HTTP but it currently does not find links injected via Javascript in Single Page Applications (SPAs) or otherwise. If you need this Javascript scraping we advise using Screaming Frog to crawl your sites. You can then upload the sitemaps from Screaming Frog to Rapid301's CSV -> 301 Redirect tool  to automatically process them.

Rapid301's matching algorithm is very accurate when the paths are similar and  it easily identifies the best match path. If the path structure has changed significantly or if there are no similar URLs, it will redirect to the parent route or index, meaning that it will still be handled. You will see paths with no great match by the blue indicator on the project review page.

Rapid301 does a great job in 90%+ cases, but there are some situations in which it can give outputs you wouldn't expect. It is strongly recommended that you check all the rows and make adjustments before exporting the redirects to make sure everything is in order.

No, Rapid301 checks all the status codes all the URLs on the staging site for both tools and excludes any that return a 404. This means that if you use the URL -> 301-Redirect or the CSV -> 301-Redirect meaning no staging paths will resolve to a 404 error page.

Rapid301 supports both username and password for sites that have HTTP authentication. You can either enter the username and password or temporarily disable it while running the scan. If your site has a password field on the page, and not HTTP, we recommend disabling the password protection for best results.

Yes, Rapid301 URL -> 301 redirect tool redirects all pages found on the current site, regardless of the status code. This means 200, 404 will be redirected.

Rapid301 is free for sites up to 10 pages and then charges a fixed rate per project for various page ranges from there. For a full price list, please visit our pricing page.

Rapid301 is completely free to use to create 301-redirect documents for any site. For sites over 50 pages, you will need to create an account. You can edit the 301-redirects in the editor and you only pay when you need to export them. If you are not satisfied with the results we are happy to offer a refund. There is no subscription service so there is no need for a free trial.

Creating 301-redirects manually is extremely time consuming and boring. I did it once for a 350 page and that was enough motivation for me to spend 1000's of hours building Rapid301 so no one has to suffer the pain and frustration again.