For some reason, Google has picked up a PDF version of one of our articles from wp-content and ranked it for one of our higher-value keywords. I'm looking to redirect that PDF link to a link for the original article, but I can't seem to get the Redirect plugin working for the wp-content URL.

If you have any ideas for how I could redirect from the wp-content PDF url to the original article URL, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

For some reason, Google has picked up a PDF version of one of our articles from wp-content and ranked it for one of our higher-value keywords. I'm looking to redirect that PDF link to a link for the original article, but I can't seem to get the Redirect plugin working for the wp-content URL.

If you have any ideas for how I could redirect from the wp-content PDF url to the original article URL, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

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Share Improve this question asked Aug 22, 2019 at 23:34 Aaron MarsdenAaron Marsden 10111 bronze badge 1

• That's because the request is served directly from disk if it exists as a file, and only given to WordPress to process if the path doesn't match a file or directory. The usual Apache config for this is RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f – Rup Commented Aug 23, 2019 at 7:16

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If you have access to your .htaccess file, try the following RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(Your_Artile_Name)\.pdf your_article.php [L,R=301] Substituting your actual file names for 'Your_article_name' and 'your_article'.

If you have a Microsoft server, this article explains how to convert .htaccess to web.config