301 is the HTTP status code for a permanent redirect.
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302 or 301 redirect in case where redirect lasts 1-2 months
I have a case where I have a newly built "author site" (promotes the author in general as a speaker and author) which needs to temporarily redirect traffic from the author's "book site" (focuses on ...
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Redisigning an old site, structure change etc
I have an old site built in 2006, it has around 200 pages and 500 pictures. Every single page is of course indexed as well as images. It is very well ranked for targeted keywords and I receive good ...
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3answers
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Can too many 301 redirects cause a DNS error?
For a site http://imageocd.com that I just set up I initially spelled the category "automobiles" as "autimobiles"... I know it's rediculous. I then set up over 10,000 pages behind that category e.g. ...
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1answer
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Google Analytics www 301 causing issues with In-Page Analytics
The closest question I could find to my problem is this one. The similarity is:
I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is ...
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How to redirect / to home.php? (PHPBB/BLOG)
I want my site address to redirect:
www.example.com to www.example.com/home.php
I want to use this method to avoid it going to the index.php of that of my blog or phpb
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1answer
425 views
.htaccess 301 Redirect for wildcard subdomains
I run WordPress in Network mode, which means I can have multiple websites running off one installation of WordPress. Each website runs as a subdomain. WordPress handles this using .htaccess, and a ...
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how long after a 301 redirect can i cancel my old site
I have .com website which I don't want to use anymore (for a variety of reasons). I want to redirect the entire site to a .net domain with a 301 redirect. After how long can I cancel my .com domain ...
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.htaccess non-www to www rule seems to work but the URL isn't changing in the address bar
On a joomla site, apache, shared hosting, I'm using next .htaccess rule:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
The problem is that the browser's ...
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serious 404 problem, suggestions for hunting them all down
I have a bit of a situation coming up. Due to a complete website structure redesign that is basically inevitable, I expect to have the following:
Our sitemap of about 12,000 url's have about 90-95% ...
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1answer
187 views
Limited 301 Redirect performance in .htaccess?
I'm in a situation and haven't been able to find a proper solution after much research. I'm working with a client who just built a new website with a different URL structure. After the website was ...
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0answers
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301 Redirection - URL Canonicalization [closed]
I have already ask this question in Server Fault However, asking here also in order to get quick reply.
I have a load balancer F5 Big ip for my website. Currently, I am having 302 redirect in place; ...
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1answer
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Help with 301 redirect from subdomain to root domain
I need to forward existing subdomain links to the root domain as the subdomain no longer exists. I have tried so many different lines of code in my .htaccess file and can not get the redirect to work.
...
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1answer
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Google Indexing URL that is a 301 redirect
My website URL structure is:
http://www.website.com/{record-type}/{record-id}/{human-readable-name}
If an invalid human readable name is provided, the page 301 redirects to the correct URL.
I've ...
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1answer
103 views
Please help how to undo 301 on blog?
I have a landing page on example.com and then a blog at example.com/blog. I noticed I have very little traffic on the blog even though it has 45 posts. I went to Bing Webmaster Tools and found this ...
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1answer
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Is there a point to redirecting our collection of purchased domains?
We have 200+ domain names that we have purchased to prevent them from being poached and misused. These additional domains are not indexed, crawled or linked to. Is there a point to actually setting ...
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1answer
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Is there a way to do a site-wide 301 redirect or rel=“canonical”
I've got a blog running on a sub domain mirrored using this method on to a sub directory, so that the links come to my main domain not the sub domain..
Obviously this creates duplicate content. What ...
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3answers
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What is the best way to deal with 404s that are all trying to point to the same page that are from an external site?
I started getting 404s showing up in my Google Webmaster's Tools from a site linking to a specific category but with odd characters at the end of the URL. So Something like this:
...
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How to Do htaccess 301 Redirect from Old Filename Pattern to New Filename Pattern?
I have a bunch of old files prefixed with "old-" (e.g. "old-abcde.php"). I need an htaccess rule to set up a 301 redirect so that any request for a file starting with "old-" goes to its corresponding ...
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2answers
289 views
getting 500 intenal error when setting 301 redirect using .htaccess
I am trying to use a 301 redirect to direct users and bots to my new site but when I put the .htaccess live i keep getting a 500 internal error shown.
The site is actually a subdomain which i want ...
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2answers
268 views
help redirecting IP address
Google has indexed the IP address of my site rather than the domain, so now I'm trying to set up a 301 redirect that will redirect the IP address and all subsequent pages to the domain.
I currently ...
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0answers
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Is It bad for SEO to have internal redirected links? [closed]
I have a large number of pages having similar but not identical content. Example: site.com/dream_dictionary_flying and site.com/dream_interpretation_flying.
The problem is that although not being ...
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1answer
386 views
Multiple 301 redirect and massive loss of ranking
I just remade from scratch a website for a client, the client ask me to preverve their ranking by making 301 redirect from the original URL to the new URL.
For instance:
...
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2answers
789 views
What are the Consequences for using Relative Location Headers?
According to the spec, Location headers used in a redirect require a server name
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
...
Location: http://example.com/foo/baz/bar
However, in 2012, most web browsers will ...
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3answers
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Rewriting URL to get Wordpress “permalink” type URL
I have created an ASP.NET site to replace a WordPress site that creates permalinks in the format:
http://example.com/the-name-of-my-post
I would like these URLs redirected to:
...
2
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1answer
2k views
SEO and multiple domains to same site
I have one website.
I have two domain names that I want to point to the same site install.
So whether you go to name-one.com or name-two.com you see the exact same site.
Now, I can either set up ...
3
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2answers
489 views
Redirect subdomain (weblog) to new domain without access to .htaccess
I have a blog that has PR 1 on a subdomain aaaa.domain.com of a blog server domain.com.
Now I want to buy a domain newdomain.com and I want to tell google webmaster to redirect the old subdomain to ...
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2answers
778 views
Installing tumblr on a subdirectory
I'm trying to figure out how to get a tumblr blog to run under a subdirecory (not subdomain) and I'm kind of stuck. I was thinking of changing the cname of my domain to tumblr blog but that would ...
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3answers
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One to many problem with implementing 301 redirect after changed urls
I have a problem.
I had an old dynamic url which I have now split into multiple static urls.
e.g.
www.mydomain.com/product.php?type=1&id=2
www.mydomain.com/product.php?type=2&id=3
...
3
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2answers
104 views
migrating PR / rankings from one site to another
Ive got a clients company site with decent PR, backlinks and search engines rankings.
The client wants to change their comapany name and therfore URL, i will set up a rediect between the old site and ...
4
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2answers
151 views
Website restyle, SEO migration plan?
I am currently in a project for one of my biggest clients. We have built a website that will -replace- the old website.
When it comes to actual content its is largely the same. However, the ...
2
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1answer
550 views
Cannot submit change of address to subdomain in Google Webmaster Tools?
I am pointing several domains to one URL, a URL which happens to include a subdomain. ALL of the domains are using 301 redirects to point to this new address.
One of the older domains (which used ...
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3answers
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301 redirects in main navigation menu of WordPress website - is this okay for SEO?
I want to allow a client to have a flexible way to configure the navigation menu for his WordPress website.
To that end, I have created a parent page called "Navigation", which has child pages for ...
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2answers
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By 301 redirect will Google take my new domain as having duplicate content ?
If I do a 301 redirect from Google Webmaster then will Google take my old domain as my new domain ? I mean, my old domain is www.hackinguniverse.org but I want to change my domain as well as name ...
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789 views
Confusion regarding SEO and a name, c name and 301 redirects
I have a VPS with and a domain from different hosters. I would like to know about the best practices for setting up the redirects regarding SEO as I am really confused about the different options.
I ...
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SEO and duplicate content for default document
SEO experts sometimes demand that default document, e.g. www.site.com/index.html redirects with 301 to www.site.com, so:
Is that really necessary?
Does Google really penalize that?
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1answer
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Does re-directing a penalized website fix the problem
A client has consulted us a case where they were not able to remove all the paid links from their website, they decided to redirect everything to a new domain, and have a fresh start. The question ...
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1answer
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Replace 404 with 301 to other subdomain
We have two main subdomains on our site: www.example.edu and php.example.edu. Virtually all of our content is on www.example.edu, but there are a few standalone apps hosted on php.example.edu. ...
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1answer
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How do I 301 redirect from the root folder to a sub folder while keeping the rest of the URL string intact
When I first launched my site, it I had MediaWiki in the root and a wordpress blog in a subfolder, /blog/.
After a while spammers took over the MediaWiki site and I had to remove it. The problem is I ...
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2answers
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301 Redirect exception vs. Script new connection to DB
I'll get right to it because this will be long.
I've built a WordPress site for a client on a new domain name and 301 redirected his 3 other domains to point to it. Then, I learn that he has a ...
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1answer
115 views
changing the subdomain and SEO issue
because of "government filtering" in Iran, once in a while we have to move the whole site into a new subdomain. For example i create a new sub domain on my public_html : http://01.mydomain.com
I know ...
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1answer
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Redirecting a .co domain to a .co.uk with masking
This is my first post here, so be gentle...
A friend wanted a website and paid for one to be set up. For reasons unknown to me he ended up with hissite.co rather than hissite.co.uk, which is what ...
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1answer
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301 redirect to different page on different domain?
I want to make a 301 redirect to a different page on a different domain. The page is on the same topic, but is different content.
Also, the traffic to the original page comes from the alt text on an ...
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2answers
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.htaccess 301 Redirect Hash Tag Redirect
How do I do a .htaccess redirect that has a hash tag in it?
Example
Source:
domain.com/#/subdir
Target:
newdomain.com/whatever/something
Everything I've tried ignores the hash tag and either ...
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2answers
115 views
Strange links appearing in 404 logs
I've recently been going through our 404 logs and we have a number of urls which look like this turning up:-
...
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1answer
117 views
Links don't work on new server
I've recently moved from server with php4 to php5. Now I cant open content in my page. Links look like this "page.com/news-it-is-rainy-day-1.html". But when I try to open link I just get the archive ...
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1answer
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How to check Redirect to a site [closed]
Let's say www.yoursite.com has been redireted (301) to www.mysite.com. If I know only know about www.mysite.com can I find out that www.mysite.com getting 301 redirect from www.yoursite.com?
I hope ...
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1answer
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use subdomain on different host
I want to accomplish something that I thought was simple. My wish is as follows:
I have a domainname with hosting, a WordPress multisite (with subfolder setup) installed and running: gangleri.nl.
I ...
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2answers
151 views
SEO and unique IDs in urls
I have a web site who's home page is at
http://domain.com
when a new user first hits the web site I'm creating a unique id of 5 chars for them (for example 'abcde' and redirecting them to ...
2
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1answer
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301 redirects mirrored domain
I'm redesigning a site for a friend on my localhost. His old site is an .asp based site and we're replacing it with a WordPress site on LAMP hosting. The old site sits on domain A and also has another ...
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2answers
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Difference between “/” at end of URL and without “/” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does it make a difference if your url ends in a trailing slash or not?
Why treat these as different URLs?
I am doing a 301 redirect in my WP application using ...
