SEO in redirects

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When redirecting any old pages of your site to moved / new pages, the best redirect is to use a 301 redirect. This is the most efficient and SE friendly method and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that specific page.

It is not that hard to implement:

~ PHP ~

Code:

<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );
?>

~ .htaccess ~

Code:

Redirect permanent / http://www.other-address.com

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Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );

Is this neccesery? I thought the Location header would do the work alone.

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I think that it tells the agent that it should use the new URI in future. More here...

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2

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Hmm. Thanks.

I recently used this, so I suppose it will help if I'll put this header too.

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Hey I need a hand here... I have this in my .htaccess file...

Code:

redirect permanent http://www.wineography.com/index.htm http://www.wineography.com

... and it is not redirecting to the home page when I go to /index.htm. Any ideas?

have you tried using simple javascript to redirect your pages? 301 only works i believe if you have switched into a new directory, not top-level files. although I am not 100% sure.

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Hmmm, I think that the php header redirect would be better than a javascript one (SEOwise), but I think that I need to get this .htaccess one right.

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header redirects are working for any occasion, even if the browser is not javascript enabled.

And it is the best way to tell a search engine crawler that your pages has moved

i found what i was looking for! thanks for the info.

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