A page, link or command that points URL requests to another URL in the world wide web. Redirects can be either server-side or client-side through the use of javascript.
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Redirect from the main page on multilanguage site
I've decided to start developing multilingual web site. Now I'm thinking about the structure. The idea is to use a simple algorithm to find out what language is most interesting to the visitor when he ...
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1answer
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Redirecting a lot of pages to one page - google rankings down the drain?
We have quite a successful site with high rankings on good keywords. Now the website is redesigned to a new one-page website. The keywords pointed to different pages from google.
What we've been ...
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Migrated website: PageRank and 404's
We have recently migrated our website and a lot of pages that existed on the old website no longer exist on the new website. We did create redirect rules to match the URLs from the old and the new ...
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1answer
511 views
.htaccess issue (500 - Internal Server Error) error
I was trying to learn how to edit and make a .htaccess file using a tutorial found at corz.org, I copied an existing .htaccess file from another site on my localhost and pasted the following content ...
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Redirect *.example.com to example.com
I have some valid subdomains in my httpd.conf file. Now how do I redirect anything that's not a valid subdomain to the main website? What I mean is, if I have a valid subdomain hello.example.com, it ...
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Is permanent redirect of subdomain a bad idea for SEO?
I have a client that wants different subdomains as 'marketing URLs' that point (301 redirect) at directories, so:
shop.mysite.com -> mysite.com/shop
artist1.mysite.com -> mysite.com/artist1
...
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1answer
536 views
sub folder non-www redirect
Is there a way to redirect a sub folder to non-www?
What i use is:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
BUT this only ...
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4answers
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Will I preserve link equity if I use two redirects?
I'm switching a social media site over to a Drupal platform. I'm planning to implement permanent directs (301) from each old url to the new url.
I'm using page titles in the url string on the new ...
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How to point Google Apps subdomain to external websites?
I have registered for a domain in Google Apps. It is automatically registered with GoDaddy.
I was wondering how can I make a subdomain point to my blog:
blog.mydomain.com => myname.blogspot.com
...
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2answers
900 views
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 ...
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2answers
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How to track click sources in a Google-compatible way?
On my website, I track when users click on a search result that brings them to a details page for an item. I then save what search query they used before they clicked.
My current solution is this:
...
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WordPress redirection chaos
I have a problem regarding redirection.
It started out as I noticed, my non-www version is redirected to the www version by 302 redirect. Since then, I am trying to figure out why this is happening. ...
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203 views
Redirecting from a dynamic URL to a prettier/simple URL?
I am trying to redirect a page via my .htaccess, but it does not seem to be working.
Old page:
/dyn/?q=customer%20reference&f=1,1,1,1,1,1&c=10,10,10,10,10,10&s=1,1,1,1,1,1,1&st=1
New ...
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2answers
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How to redirect my brand new domain to Dlinkddns.com
Today I bought a domain from GoDaddy for my personal usage. I'm trying to forward requests from the domain to a DlinkDDNS account with no success so far.
https://account.dlinkddns.com:port works ...
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2answers
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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 -> ...
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2answers
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Google and random redirects
I have a site where homepage "example.com" redirects to random joke(example.com/random-joke). First I redirected with php, but then google indexed that joke page(rather to be empty). I used "302 ...
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2answers
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How to make so that a first domain name redirects to second one but the URL displays the first domain name?
I have first domain name registered with some domain name registrar, for which I don't have web hosting account, only dns hosting.
I have second domain name registered with godaddy, with web hosting ...
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1answer
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“good” way to redirect users and robots for internationalization?
I have a website in Spanish and English.
When there isn't any subdomain selected the preferred language is taken from the browser preferred language or a cookie.
I have the following URLs
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2answers
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domain.com to www.domain.com .htaccess redirect working except one subdir
I've setup a redirect in .htaccess to consolidate domain.com to www.domain.com traffic on our Apache server.
Looks like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ...
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1answer
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Personalized sub-domain URLs
Most of the SaaS companies, some social networking, and blog services (like Wordpress.com and blogger) create a personalized sub-domain for each user, e.g. username.website.com
What is the general ...
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1answer
369 views
Web.config -> Redirect old blog URL's to new pattern
I just changed my blogging software and I have now the problem that I want to redirect my old imported blog post to the new url pattern.
My old pattern looks like:
...
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3answers
968 views
IIS 7: Masking real domain
I have a website with 2 languages.
website.local/fr
and website.local/en
How can I redirect:
myfrweb.com to website.local/fr
and
myenweb.com to website.local/en
keeping the myenweb.com or ...
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0answers
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IIS 7.5 - HTTP Redirect and URL Rewrite
my goal is to give the users a friendly url like appname-help which should point to a sharePoint wiki site where we create the help content, the SharePoint url is ugly and long, something like: ...
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1answer
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Why is there a form which allows us to redirect our naked domain, yet it does nothing?
In Google Apps Domain Management, There is a page for me to change how my naked domain http://example.com is redirected.
However, in that page, it tells me You must change the A-record at your domain ...
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1answer
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How to promote your new website (when you have an old site with the same theme but higher PR)
In the situation that you have an old website registered under wordpress (for example aaa.wordpress.com). It became quite successful and you decided to purchase "aaa.com".
On aaa.com, you continued ...
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.htaccess redirect to subfolder in different domain, maintaining old domain in the URL
Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work.
I have a WordPress site hosted in ...
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2answers
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How can I browse to my new hosting site using browser?
Hi I have a new hosting site and my domain is still redirecting to my old domain.I have now my shared IP address and ftp details.
How can I browse my new hosting site using
http://ipaddress/foldername ...
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1answer
181 views
Is there a SEO benefit of a 'reverse canonical redirect' back to the 'friendly' URL?
As far as I understand, you should have a single URL to access a given page on a website to prevent duplicate issues. With this in mind I have setup IIS7 Rewrite to point my friendly URLs to my .aspx ...
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1answer
594 views
why is having no redirect between domain.com and www.domain.com wrong?
After asking this question:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8042748/facebook-login-returns-error-message-if-domain-accessed-without-www-prefix
I was told that using domain.com and www.domain.com ...
0
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1answer
275 views
short and friendly URL for affiliate links
This is my first question here on Pro Webmaster... I'm really glad to be here!
I believe this question will have a simple answer but I'm starting with htaccess and I want to learn something about ...
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0answers
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Location-Based Redirection and Duplication in Sub-directories Affecting SEO
I currently own the website www.xyz.com. The website has a sub-directory for each of the 3 target countries: .../en-US/ (United States), .../es-MX/ (Mexico), and .../es-DO/ (Dominican Republic). I ...
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Recommended way on implementing 301 redirects
I am rebranding a website, which involves changing the domain name. I want to know the best way of redirecting traffic to the new domain, using 301. Ideally, I will do this at the webserver (Apache) ...
0
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1answer
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Internet Explorer blocking
How do I add a custom page that is displayed only to Internet Explorer users so that they are not able to access my blog.
I'm using Wordpress 3.3 and thought there would be a plugin for that or ...
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2answers
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SEO penalty for landing page redirects
Using ebay as an example- lets say I have a large number of items whose URLs' look like this:
cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1981-VW-Vanagon-manual-seats-seven-/250953153841
I want to give my client the ...
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1answer
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SEO Value in redirected link?
Our local Chamber of Commerce has an incoming link to us, but they are using an internal ASP page to process the link and using a 302 redirect to send that page to our site. So our anchor text on ...
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NginX redirect to PHP file if image does not exist on file server
This is what I am trying to do. I am not familiar with Nginx enough to create custom rewrite rules like you can with Apache. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me with the Nginx ...
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1answer
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Removed pages. set them 404 or 301 to home page? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO: ecommerce item deleted by user, 301 rediret to HOME PAGE or 404 not found?
I decided to delete about 2000 pages because of panda update. Now the question is... ...
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3answers
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Moving blog to another host - what is the impact to SEO to be expected?
I run a blog under mywebsite.com/blog. This is a self-hosted Movable-type installation. Now I want to get rid of the blog installation and use a hosted (WordPress.com) solution instead.
The blog is ...
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3answers
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When redirecting from http to https in a shop site, which status code should I use?
On a shop website, when "Pay now" is clicked we perform a header redirection to the same URL, just an SSL secured https version.
In such a common scenario, should we use a permanent (301), a ...
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1answer
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Apache redircting when it shouldnt
I have inherited a LAMP server with a lot of customization.
I want to enable mod_status in apache to get some monitoring of apache started. Problem is, with mod_status enabled in the httpd.conf, I am ...
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2answers
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After changing web host, I get a 'file does not exist' error
I run a WordPress blog, and have recently changed web hosts.
When changing web hosts, I copied all files and exported/imported the database etc as explained by lots of tutorials found easily on ...
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1answer
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.htaccess rule to redirect from 404 to search results
When a user (or a bot) request on non existing page, I want to redirect him to the search results. I prefere to do it with the .htaccess file using something like:
ErrorDocument 404 ...
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2answers
2k views
.htaccess rewrite www to non-www and remove .html
I need rewrite rules to redirect the following:
http://www. to http://
/file.html to /file
I've tried using a combination of these but each time it results in a redirect loop on one of the ...
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3answers
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What's wrong with my htaccess ? (500 Error)
I've written a small htaccess file to redirect Internet Explorer users to a specific page
Here are the contents :
# MS Internet Explorer - Mozilla v4
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ...
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3answers
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302 Moved Temporarily or 301?
I have a question on redirects.
HTTP status code checker tool shows "HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily" for the home page URL http://someurl.com (just a namesake URL). Also, this URL opens up ...
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What's the advantage in purchasing new hosting purely for 301 redirections
As a follow on from How do I adjust our "default" domain I am about to setup 301 redirections from a selection of TLD to our recently selected default domain.
Currently ALL of our TLDs ...
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1answer
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Redirection 302 during DNS update
I will migrate my website from server A to server B.
During the DNS propagation, the users arriving on server A will be 302 redirected (rewrite rule in Apache) to a temporary alias on server B.
...
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1answer
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Permanent redirect to different domain followed by temporary redirect to folder
I have old-domain.com which I want to migrate to new-domain.com. However, the content on the old domain is, well, old. And I'm currently in the process of redesigning my whole site.
My idea is to do ...
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1answer
264 views
Hosting multiple sites - Mask URL?
I have a hosting account where I have my main site (www.mainsite.com points to root folder), and a subfolder xpto.com, where I want to have another site (www.xpto.com).
I can access ...
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Will Google Analytics track urls that just redirect?
I have a link on my site. That links goes to another URL on my site. The code on the server sees that resource being requested and redirects the browser to another website. Will Google Analytics be ...
