With the November 30 move to the new LDS.org, many people have asked what to do with links to LDS.org that they already have in blogs and on websites.  The good news is that these links should redirect readers to the new LDS.org.

The LDS.org development team has made great efforts to redirect major pages (such as magazines, manuals, general conference talks, scriptures, gospel topics, and temple pages) from the old LDS.org to the new LDS.org. If an old page on LDS.org doesn’t have an equivalent page on the new LDS.org, the page will still work for now. Hopefully, no links should return a Page Not Found error. If you find any such broken links, please let us know so the development team can update the logic in their redirects.

These redirects should remain in place about a year, but will eventually be retired. Therefore, we invite you to update your links to the new URLs, which will remain in place long-term.

Another reason to update to the new URLs is that they are “friendly,” meaning that they contain logic and key words which will enhance search engine optimization. For example,

• lds.org/friend/2010/01 is the January 2010 issue of The Friend magazine
• lds.org/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-1-our-father-in-heaven is chapter 1 of the Gospel Principles manual titled “Our Father in Heaven”

If your blog or website has links to content on LDS.org, you should update these links to the new URLs. Since the LDS.org development team has redirects in place, you can click on an existing link, and then copy the new URL that results from the redirect. Use that new URL as the link.

Even though the old site is available at classic.lds.org, we do not recommend creating any permanent links to classic.lds.org. These old pages may disappear at any time, and would create a Page Not Found error.

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