How to redirect traffin from backlinks

I would like to redirect some links that point to my blog and have them point to this forum but I want my blog to be up still.

For example I have several backlinks from examplesite.com and I'd like to redirect the link to this forum, but I don't want to just do a blanket redirect for all links, and I want my blog to remain up still.

Is that possible?

Thanks

Maybe something like this?

Code:

Redirect 301 http://examplesite.com http://www.newsite.com

but I'd want to redirect all links on examplesite.com
so examplesite.com/1
examplesite.com/2
examplesite.com/3.html

etc.. all to the new site

 

Not sure, but yes, I think you can try out some of the conditional statements on the .htaccess file of your website.

 

Yes, this can be done, but you need to understand what is going on so that you don't break it later on by accident.

Firstly you will need to know the URL from which the visitor came, this information is stored in the query string, but the problem with relying on the query string to redirect people is that it is sometimes blank, browser security and such may delete it if in private mode etc so you need to account for that first with this to make sure it's not blank.

Code:

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.
 

The next step, now that you know the query string isn't blank is to add another condition so that you only redirect people coming from one specific url.

Code:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (www\.)?example\.com/some-other-page [NC]

Now that you've identified the visitor as coming from the other page you need to redirect them

Code:

RewriteRule ^current-page$ http://www.yoursite.com/new-page.html [R=301,L] 

Those three steps will redirect a majority of the visitors coming from the other site to the new page but it's not foolproof, it requires the query string, so not everyone will get redirected.

Considerations: Googlebot does not provide a query string, it visits pages directly, so this will not stop Googlebot from indexing the page you are sending people away from and it will not stop a cache version from appearing in Google results.

Also, the above three lines of code need to be placed BEFORE any wordpress code in your htaccess, above other redirects. Good luck.

 

Thank you so much @bigbigfan
I'll play around with these tonight to see if I can get them working.