301 is the HTTP status code for a permanent redirect.
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Website starts showing 404 after 301 redirects via .htaccess
One of my clients websites started getting 404 messages on some pages after doing 301 redirects via .htaccess file. I don't understand why that happens, could someone tell me what went wrong?
The ...
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Check old urls for backlinks - same domain new design and urls
I have a client who recently did a re-design on his website. The designer did not put any effort in keeping the same url or do any redirect. Ive made a list of the old urls, what I want to do now is ...
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Need to redirect all files/folders under subfolder but leave subfolder alone
I hope my title makes sense. Here is what I have: On our previous website, we had URLs similar to the following:
www.example.com/support/BIOS/JXT/0ABWDA22.zip
This same file on our new site has the ...
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How long before Google counts my .htaccess 301 redirect links?
I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before webdesigner with no SEO knowledge changed all his urls. Ive used the wayback machine and google analytics to determine the ...
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Multiple domains
I got 6 domains : company.ca and company.com (because both where free, but we are a canadian company but can do business with the rest of the world).
Then, we sell sportwear because of the company ...
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Combine redirect to naked domain and point existing content to /blog
I think the .htaccess setup for this ought to be fairly straightforward, but I'm having a hard time with it for some reason. I've just completed the migration of a WordPress single site installation ...
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How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?
I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named /view.php?id=1234 and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a 301 Moved Permanently redirection of each one of them to ...
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Domain migration and duplicate content/index issue
I have a website.net which I want to 301 redirect to website.com and I also want to change URL structure on some pages on the new .com site.
Problem is that .com is currently set as Website Alias of ...
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What are the most commonly used and basic Apache htaccess redirects?
This question is here so we can offer users who are looking for information on how to make one or more common or basic redirects in Apache using the htaccess file. All future questions pertaining to ...
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I am moving my site from a virtual directory to a dedicated server, can I save me SEO urls via a web.config change?
I have been hosting my site in a shared environment at http://www.example.com/MYSITE/ for a while and I've built up a following there, I have decent ranking in Google and Bing, as well as I've been ...
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Pointing a sub domain to another server using directi control panel while domain.com is not hosted
Do we of course need a host for domain.com? Unfortunately currently the host for domain.com is down, so sub.domain.com cannot be redirected to where it should.
Is there a way to at least activate the ...
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Htaccess redirection for my domain?
I have a site that has been hit hard with penguin and panda. So hard I have put up another domain and installed a CMS and rewritten the content the page has a good pagerank but was hit hard with ...
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301 redirect from “/index.html” to root if index.html not exist
Can I create 301 redirect from "index.html" to root directory if file "index.html" not exist?
For example: link "http://example.com/index.html" show "404 Error" page.
I need 301 redirect to root ...
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Should I remove bad links to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Should I remove bad links e.g. 0 Page Rank, 0 Trust linking to old site that are being 301 redirected to new site?
Would I get rid of these links using Google's Disavow links?
We've only improved in ...
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Moving site from its own domain to sub directory - updating webmaster tools
We've got a site info-graphic-site.com which is on its own domain, what we want to do is move it to our-main-site.com/infographic
I know how to move them and setup 301's but what I was wondering is ...
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site home not at site root index
I have an SEO concern with a website that has just finished the development stage, basically the site has been in progress for a year. During this period the site has been accessible from the URL: ...
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Consequence of redirecting ALL 404s on a site
I've just gone through my sites 404 list and redirected all of them to the front page.
There were in general 2 categories of links. The first was relative links of client sites which we may have ...
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Duplicate title tags error in webmaster tools
I have changed some URLs in my site then to prevent webmaster tools duplicate error I redirected (301) old URLs to new URLs also I tried to remove old URLs in "Optimization>Remove URLs" section of ...
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301 or 302 redirect for mobile/non-mobile pages
I'm setting up redirection for mobile/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the ?mobile=1 or ?mobile=0 flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is ...
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Migration Joomla to Codeigniter - GWT reporting lots of 404's - How to fix
I recently created a whole new fitted system structure for a site previously running on Joomla 1.5 CMS. They wanted something more simple and elegant, and their back-end was a mess of modules and ...
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SEO Impact on changing the resolutions of already indexed images
Let's say that i have a image restaurant-photo_big.jpg which is 640x480..
How can I change the resolution safely for SEO purposes? it's the same identical image but 800x800 (it may be cropped out ...
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Redirect pages to fix crawl errors
Google is giving me a crawl error for pages that I have removed like www.mysite.com/mypage.html. I want to redirect this pages to the new page www.mysite.com/mysite/mypage.
I tried to do that by ...
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Permenant Redirect Error [closed]
Got the Internal Server Error While try to redirect my old html website www.zynapse.com to new php website www.verdantis.com.
Please help me with regarding to this.
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Should I redirect the site IP address to the domain name
I have been told by an SEO company to redirect the site IP to the domain using a 301 redirect. This will apparently improve the SEO ranking of the site. The site has a dedicated IP address.
Is this ...
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domain and subdomain working with drupal
I have a domain let its called www.example.com and I have a Drupal instance of this as a subdomain called dev.example.com. example.com is place directly at the root of public_html while the Drupal ...
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Consolidate search results from site that gets accessed from multiple domains
I have a site hosted on Windows Azure, and I have a domain pointing to the site, so I can access the site using both mysite.cloudapp.net as well as mysite.com.
Now for some reason Google indexed ...
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two seperate websites but I want one to rank quicker
I want to get a site Ive had a while rank quicker, it is socialmediamarketingthailand.com being a social media marketer in Thailand its a top level domain name. Its been up a while but Ive not had ...
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Redirection transparent to Google and other SE [duplicate]
I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is.
I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com
On that domain I have 3 ...
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How do I map a (keyword rich) domain name to an existing website?
I am not experienced technical person, and still learning but will try to explain what I have done so far and what my query is.
I have a (hypothetical) domain az-studios.com
On that domain I have 3 ...
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Loss of page rank by Google after 301 Redirect?
I have developed a stock discussion forum whereby I separate each forum by the ticker symbol. The issue is, recently, the makers of the Blackberry phone, Research in Motion (formerly ticker symbol ...
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htaccess returning 404 errors on some URLS on website
I have a .htaccess file on my main directory on my website, which basically allows pretty urls (example.com/index instead of example.com/index.html) and it will redirect to a pretty url if someone ...
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Does Google penalize for too many redirects from different domains?
This is a follow up question to Archiving web content annually. One site or sites by year?
We are completing the import of tens of thousands scientific abstracts into a single site. The most recent ...
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301 redirects… www. > http … the entire sitemap
I submitted a duplicate sitemap some time back to incorporate the www. addresses when I saw my site was not directing there when I typed it directly in the address bar. As I have edited my site and ...
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For SEO, should I direct an existing website with a lower page rank to a new, better-ranked site?
I have a client that has an existing site, let's call it bobthebuilder.com. My client has been posting blog posts to it for the past couple of years and a modest amount of sites are naturally linking ...
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What Google will do while switching from 301/404 to 200?
Imagine a pagination script with 20 total pages:
articles.php?page=18
What should I do when some third party web site links to a non-existent page?
articles.php?page=21 (page 21 is out of ...
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RewriteBase has to change when using UserDir
I have setup our Apache server to use UserDir
This mean our urls are:
http://dev.server.com/~username/drupal/html/
Before our URLS were:
http://dev.server.com/drupal/html/
In the 2nd case I ...
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How can I find common misspellings for my domain name?
I'd like to register misspellings for my domain name, but I don't want to speculatively register a zillion "just guessing" forms. For example, this tool offers the following options in a Keyword Typo ...
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https:// search results appearing on Google for purely http:// site
I started weeding through my site's search results from Google today, using a site: search, to determine if there are any links that cause 404s and thus need redirecting. To my amazement I noticed ...
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Is it a good idea to register multiple domains pointing to a single website
We have a main domain or primary domain (say xyz.com) on which we have our website hosted. For the sake of business/trademark we would like to book other domain with the same name but different tlds ...
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301 redirect bulk aspx urls on IIS
We recently relaunched an old aspx site as a new Drupal site on the same domain. No 301 redirect was implemented.
I have outputted a list of 1000 urls that need to be 301 redirected. Most of the ...
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301 Redirect from www to non-www without using VHOST
I have my web application running on EC2 with Apache. I want to redirect www to non-www. On searching Google, I used this but it leads to redirect loop:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ...
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301 redirects, site files
Is it possible to have a 301 redirect without moving files?
I have a site currently at a .ca domain.
Now I want the primary domain to be .org. I would like to do this in a way that is search engine ...
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Google indexed my escaped_fragment pages
My site is a single page web-app. I am following the suggestions based on making AJAX applications crawl-able.
My URL looks like this:
http://domain.com/#!pages/contactUs
My understanding is:
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GWT: reporting crawling errors for non existing links
Google Webmaster Tools is reporting crawl errors for links that never existed, and if i check the "Linked from" tab for a given error link, it shows another that never existed.
They all mention ...
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Is it better to burn old domain names and 301 to a new one for domains that experienced a high number of errors?
As discussed in this topic, several sites were down due to a server issue for about a month. I have slowly watched some of the more popular sites gain some traffic. I did say slowly.
I have also ...
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What are others' experience in burning a domain, and 301 redirecting all requests to another domain? [closed]
I had a domain that was performing quite well. However, during a one month instance (last September), the domain was down, throwing a ton of errors. We cleaned up all unwanted URL's with 410 (which ...
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redirection time duration [closed]
I am using a seo function to generate clean urls :
$link = BASEURL.'/myword/'.$details['id'].'_'.SEO(clean(str_replace(' ','-',$details['title']))).$plist;
in my php file there's lines to do the ...
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Most efficient way to forward domain.com to example.com/subfolder?
Title says my entire question. I think I saw someone forward domain.com to example.com/subfolder and have spent about a week trying to figure out how to best do this..
My goal is to have user type in ...
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Redesigning a page while not using old images but also not losing rank
I have redesigned one of the pages of a website I'm current working on, and some of the images on this website, 2 to be exact, rank on the very first page of public google search results.
Those ...
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Will a domain(Y) redirected to a maindomain.com/product/ be indexed by SE?
We have several domains with the names of products we sell. The idea is to create mini sites in the future that specialize just in those products, mainly for better placement on SE results pages.
As ...
