301 is the HTTP status code for a permanent redirect.
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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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4answers
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Is there any way to redirect one domain to another via DNS settings keeping the path information?
For example, my domain is example.com and when someone navigates to example.com/sample/page.htm, I want it to redirect to test.com/sample/page.htm.
I know that this can probably easily be done using ...
10
votes
1answer
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Major Google not follow increase since introducing 301 to site
Recently we implemented Varnish in front of our web nodes so that the backend would get some rest from time to time. Since varnish is case sensitive and our app was not we implemented
a 301 in varnish ...
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What constitutes a “substantial, good-faith effort to remove the links”
We engaged the services of a 3rd party SEO consultant to assist us in managing our Meta data and to write regular blogs on our site http://cyberdesignworks.com.au
Without our authorisation, the SEO ...
8
votes
3answers
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Dev site indexed by Google
I was developing a new version of our site on a subdomain (dev.oursite.com) and the robots.txt with the disallow got replaced at some point, so the site got indexed by Google and other search engines. ...
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votes
2answers
776 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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2answers
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Retrieve Facebook Like count after changing URL structure for entire website
I just changed the URLs for my entire website. I have set up 301 permanent redirects for all old URLs to new URLs. Rel=canonical are set to new URLs.
All Facebook Like buttons count have returned to ...
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votes
3answers
226 views
How to re-direct Wordpress posts with 301
All my WordPress post URLs generate sub directories with duplicate content and I do not know what regular expression to use to consistently 301 redirect domain.com/category/post/random-number/ to ...
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224 views
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% ...
5
votes
2answers
320 views
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?
5
votes
1answer
473 views
How can my site detect mobile phones and switch visitors to a mobile Domain?
My Question is that when user enter the website: http://www.example.com then they will just go to automatically to http://www.example.mobi how can i do this .. is their any technique behind that.
...
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2answers
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Website on S3: Multiple subdomains to one Bucket?
I'd like to host a website on Amazon S3. What's the best practice to make a site accessible from both example.com and www.example.com?
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votes
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How Do I Setup 301 Redirects in Google Apps Site?
I have just moved a website from a shared host to a Google Apps site.
Is there a way I can setup 301 redirects on my Google Apps site so that old links (with a different URL) can be 301 redirected to ...
5
votes
2answers
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Moving from Subdirectory to Subdomain structure
I have a website (powered by Rails/Postgres and nginx) where I had setup a blog and a coupons section as:
http://myrailsapp.com/blog/ http://myrailsapp.com/coupons/
Blog is powered by wordpress and ...
5
votes
2answers
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.htaccess directory to subdomain
I have been trying to make a subdomain from a directory (made by .htaccess) to be used as the main page starting like http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html and turning into ...
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votes
3answers
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301 Redirect HTML Pages
In a web debugger, the html of a 301 redirect page shows up as:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
...
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votes
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 ...
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votes
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 ...
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votes
2answers
570 views
I have domain.com and domain.org to the same site, should I use redirects to avoid duplicate content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have both the .com and the .org for a domain name, and using Apache I point them to ...
4
votes
3answers
1k views
What is the best way to redirect my naked domain?
I have example.com, which points to web server using A records, I want to redirect all traffic from www.example.com to example.com.
As far as i know these are methods,
301 HTML redirect from www to ...
4
votes
3answers
289 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
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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 ...
4
votes
1answer
51 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
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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 ...
4
votes
1answer
164 views
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 ...
4
votes
2answers
131 views
Index a 301 Redirect to help a user locate a page
On a site I'm currently working on, there is a 301 Redirect to redirect a nice short URL for users to type in when trying to find a particular piece of content - e.g. www.mydomain.com/apply -> ...
4
votes
1answer
272 views
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 ...
4
votes
2answers
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How to 301 redirect from old query string urls to CakePHP Canonical urls?
I currently have a .htaccess file that looks like this:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^action=view&item=([0-9]+)$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ /index.php?url=item/%1 [R=301]
RewriteCond ...
3
votes
3answers
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I want to consolidate two sites into a third. Will my search engine rankings be penalized if I rewrite and redirect pages one by one?
I have two Drupal sites with different content-- let's call them Apple and Orange. I recently developed a much more sophisticated third Drupal site-- let's call it Tree. For a large number of ...
3
votes
2answers
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How can I find the number of users who visit my site via a redirect?
My domain foo.com redirects (via a permanent 301) to bar.com. I want to know how many visitors to bar.com come from having first visited foo.com.
I'm using Woopra - originally, I thought the ...
3
votes
1answer
385 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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votes
1answer
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What does the '^' mean in “rewrite ^ http://test.com permanent;”
I found some configuration of nginx contains:
if($args ^~ post=140) {
rewrite ^ http://test.com/ permanent;
}
What does the ^ mean in rewrite ^ http://test.com/ permanent?
3
votes
3answers
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How important is it to 301 redirect forum posts
I am going through the process of porting all forum data from PHP to ASP.net, it's quite a long and difficult process. There are around 30,000 threads, it's been online for quite a few years.
How ...
3
votes
1answer
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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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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Redirecting all subfolder url's to another domain
I have a domain that is domain.com/portfolio/some-url
I would simply like to direct all traffic that would normally go to the subfolder /portfolio to a new domain:
new-domain.com/
How would I do ...
3
votes
2answers
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301 Redirect in the body?
This may be a silly question, but if I only have access to edit a website through a CMS, and can't touch the headers, is there a way to redirect the page without prompting the user to click a link?
3
votes
2answers
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Where should I redirect (removed) phishing pages
I was unfortunately the victim of a PHP exploit. Looking through my webserver logs, people are still attempting to reach the URL used in the phish. I want to redirect them to a site that will educate ...
3
votes
1answer
151 views
Is it ok to use 301's this way?
I installed a forum, which has a page for member info. I want this to link to my main sites member info page which is a lot more detailed and interactive.
The forum membership page has the url:
...
3
votes
3answers
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SEO disasters moving domain for a high traffic website?
We're looking at moving our website from http://www.wikijob.co.uk to http://www.wikijob.com/uk as we spread our wings internationally.
Our .co.uk website has a PR6 and received around 1/2 million ...
3
votes
1answer
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Is it possible to create a 301 redirect and MX records at a naked domain?
I'm wondering since I found out that creating a CNAME and an MX record is not allowed.
I want to create a 301 redirect from example.com to www.example.com, and have email with @example.com addresses.
...
3
votes
2answers
92 views
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 ...
3
votes
2answers
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How does duplicate file and directory names affects SEO
I have some 40 crawl errors in my website, those are pointing to files which are not existing. and I want to resolve all 404 errors
I dont have acccess to .htaccess file. Because i am on shared ...
3
votes
3answers
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Will my traffic come back after my site redesign? [closed]
I screwed up. I launched my site after rebuilding it without setting up the proper 301's and traffic immediately dropped about 60%(it's not really something I thought about). After about a week and a ...
3
votes
2answers
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.htaccess Redirect 301 in Wordpress – From Post to Page
By default, Wordpress posts are added to RSS feed. For my website, I want to include Wordpress pages to RSS feed. I know that some plugins could help me. Instead, I try to use redirect 301 in ...
3
votes
1answer
371 views
How to do a cacheable redirection?
When users enter my website example.com, their "preferred" language is detected and they are redirected (using a 301 Moved Permanently redirection) to example.com/en/ (for English), example.com/it/ ...
3
votes
1answer
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How can I redirect all files in a directory that doesn't conform to a certain filename structure?
I have a website where a previous developer had updated several webpages. The issue is that the developer had made each new webpage with new filenames, and deleted the old filenames. I've worked with ...
3
votes
1answer
572 views
Does redirecting old site's URLs to new site's front page hurt a page's ranking?
An old site that is being rewritten needs to have it's URLs redirected to the new site. There are a few hundred pages that may or may not have corresponding pages on the new site, probably with ...
3
votes
1answer
412 views
For SEO, is a 301 or 302 redirect better for affiliate links?
For SEO, is a 301 or 302 redirect better for affiliate links?
Are there any benefits/drawbacks for either?
PriceGrabber uses 301
Shopzilla uses 302
Nextag uses 302
3
votes
1answer
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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 ...
