Questions tagged [301-redirect]
301 is the HTTP status code for a permanent redirect.
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Redirect 301 issue with URLs containing question marks [duplicate]
I'm trying to do some basic point to point redirects using 301 redirect 301 with a .htaccess.
All is going well but there is one type of URL that is not happy.
I'm trying to go from:
http://www....
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Is a CNAME from the domain apex to the www record the correct way to configure a site to use the WWW version?
Let's say I own example.com and want to use www.example.com as the default.
I thought I could do this by using an A record to point the www version to the IP and using a CNAME record to point the ...
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How best to perform 4 million 301 jpeg URL redirects?
I certainly don't want to list 4 million redirects in my nginx config files... what's the best practice with a large number of redirects like this? They'd be permanent as well as the old links live ...
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Launching a new website on a subdomain but keeping exsisting website running
We're about to launch a new Drupal 8 website for a client, as not all areas of the current website will be on the new platform, and due to apparent legacy complications, the decision has been made to ...
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If an old redirecting domain expires will it still redirect or affect SEO?
What happens if an old domain redirecting to a new domain expires? Will it still redirect? What is the effect on search engine ranking?
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Are there any negative implications of redirecting a URL on one domain to a URL on a different domain?
For context, my company uses a 3rd party website to house Instructions for Use manuals for the products we manufacture. We use a 3rd party to house these manuals as they are very large and often need ...
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Change address error in Search console, can't pass 301 redirect confirmation
with a 301, I redirect friendsofcoffee.nl to misterbarish.nl.
I use the .htaccess file for the redirect with following code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^friendsofcoffee.example$ [OR]
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How to redirect domain to subdomain
Could you please guide me to permanent redirect my website https://example.com/ to new subdomain https://ww1.example.com/
I don't know how to do that. Please help
I'm using vestacp.
I will really ...
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Google Tag Manger Event for 301 Redirect
I have an image slider on my website.
The entire slide is a link.
I created a web page just to have a URL to use for a 301 redirect.
Slide links to website.com/sample-page > Redirect is set to ...
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Google Sites: 301 Redirect broken links to the home page
Several months ago, I migrated my domain from GoDaddy to Google Domains and now use Google Sites. Several broken links from the old GoDaddy webpage highly ranked on Google Search persist.
I would ...
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Redirecting index.html to root + folder index.html to root folder? (multilingual)
I have example.com page. I want a homepage without index.html (example.com/index.html -> example.com)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/index\.html$ /$1/ [R=301,...
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Redirect directory olddomain.com/my-site/ to new domain newdomain.com (SEO) [duplicate]
I am in the process of creating a new website newdomain.com. My old site was located within a directory of another domain olddomain.com/my-site.
With regards both technical aspects, and SEO, what is ...
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WP Apache .htaccess redirect .com traffic to .co.uk Issue
I have a website I am looking to redirect .com traffic to .co.uk.
For the moment, when I navigate to https://example.com, it redirects to https://www.example.co.uk and displays as such in the address ...
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Redirecting URL with & without query string?
If I setup a 301 redirect for the first URL path below will that also redirect all the paths below that contain a query string?
For example:
/6-light-oval-chandelier-espresso?pp=0&epik=...
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Finding URLs that redirect to a given website
Is there any way to find all URLs that (permanently) redirect to a given website?
E.g. www.ubercab.com redirects to www.uber.com. So I'd want a way to determine that www.ubercab.com redirects without ...
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htaccess conflicts
The issue that I'm currently forced to handle is related to a folder structure URL being redirected to the same folder structure URL but with a different string.
So page-a used to exist but that ...
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301 redirects for asp pages to html
So I've redesigned a site that was built comprising of solely .asp pages and redid it using .html pages. I deleted the old site and uploaded the new, and uploaded my .htaccess file with code along the ...
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How would you implement redirects for domain canonicalization, no-www, and HTTPS for IIS 7.5
For the moment I'm stuck with an IIS-server, unfortunately not my best subject (I'm much better w. Apache).
We have a site on a Win 2008 R2 Server with IIS 7.5.
It's an old site and we are working on ...
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.htaccess to redirect subdirectory to its own domain name
I have for example 2 domain names
gl.example that points to /public_html/ (which has subfolder /public_html/tlf/)
and tlf.example that points to the subfolder /public_html/tlf/
How do I redirect so ...
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Bad route appended to URL when redirecting from http to https
I have a WordPress site hosted on OVH and I'm having issues when redirecting from http to https.
http://www.example.com redirects nicely to https://www.example.com
https://www.example.com redirects ...
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Drop in traffic in high traffic site after 301 redirect
Here are the steps I took
301 redirect w/wildcard from old domain to new domain
Updated & verified Google Search Console for new domain, submitted change of address, etc.
Updated Google Analytics ...
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Moving content from old site/domain to new [duplicate]
We have two sites/blog, and now we are merging the two blogs into one blog. We move content from domain2.com to domain1.com. What should I consider when it comes to SEO. Should I move all the traffic ...
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Old website still found on google but redirects to new site
We have launched a new website replacing our old one, and Google now finds the new and the old website. Our old website was published under /public, the new one is published under /web:
Setup until ...
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Does a new permanent rewrite rule supersede old permanent rewrite rule?
Ages ago we included a redirect in web.config to ensure that pages would rewrite to http://www.example.com/ if the user input, say, www.example.comor variants of it.
Recently we changed the site so ...
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Having many redirected affiliate link with 301 Redirection
We have many affiliate link like below.
example.com/123.html
example.com/456.html
example.com/789.html
example.com/555.html
example.com/666.html
....more than 1000 URLs
All these links are 301 ...
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What to do when changing or moving off of a CDN to redirect images?
I am moving a site off of a CDN where all the images are cached and served:
https://some-cdn.example/my-image.jpg
The image will now live here:
https://myurl.example/my-image.jpg
Many of these ...
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How can I change description Google shows in the search results for a 301 redirect URL?
We transferred our domain from our old CMS to our new one but we still have the same domain. Let's say our domain is now example.com.
I Googled our domain protein powder and a page from our old site ...
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301 Redirect vs Canonical Link - which is preferred?
Let's say I have the following three URLS.
Url1: Domain/Home
Url2: www.domain/home
Url3: domain/home <-- Canonical
With respect to SEO, is it preferred to add a canonical link to Url1 &...
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Is it OK for SEO to redirect a subdomain to its corresponding add-on domain after Google indexed the subdomain rather than the add-on domain?
I put in place a 301 redirection for the add-on domain subdomain.domain.example to subdomain.example, because Google was sometimes indexing subdomain.domain.example.
Is this 301 redirection the ...
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Using htaccess to redirect 301 for domain change
I am currently moving a domain from one to the other, this is not an HTTPS move but rather a move from exampleone.co.uk to exampletwo.co.uk. I am using this code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
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Google ignoring Canonical tag
I have two pages on the site that are 100% identical:
MyDomain.com
MyDomain.com/Keyword
MyDomain.com/Keyword exists solely because I had to give the page I created in the CMS a url, and that page is ...
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How to ignore/redirect all URLs matching a certain string
I am using the WordPress plugin, Timely All-in-One events calendar. Unfortunately it is creating a plethora of duplicate URLs which end in strings like
https://www.example.com/events/action~agenda/...
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Difference between 301 and 303 status codes
What is the difference between 301 Moved Permanently and 303 See Other status codes?
Both are used for redirects. There is some detailed info on the 303 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_303, ...
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forcing SSL without 301 redirect
Is there a way to force an SSL lock without using a 301 redirect, such as server side?
I'm happy to supply context if requested.
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Does having a lot of 301 redirects noticably impact performance?
I just moved my website to Wordpress from another service. Unfortunately, this means that although I was able to import all of my previous content to Wordpress, the post permalinks are now entirely ...
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How to bulk redirect in htaccess from old site with parameters
I'm currently updating an old website, but I don't know much about htaccess redirects. I made a script to get all the pages of the website and here are some examples:
For pages:
Redirect 301 /index....
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Domain redirect to main domain with language param (301) [duplicate]
The following scenario: I have purchased multiple domains for a project:
domain.app
domain.com
domain.de
Originally it was planned to display a landing page on domain.app.
On domain.de the german ...
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What does ^(.*) mean in a rewrite rule, is there a simpler alternative?
I have just copy and pasted a rewrite rule for a redirect from some website. It contains:
^(.*)
I want to know what it means. Why is it so complicated? Can it be simplified?
The whole .htaccess ...
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Can Google crawlers read the content of a page that has a 301 redirect?
I'm facing an issue of Google not picking up my new meta description for a specific page template. This page is currently being redirected to a different page on the site. Previously, the meta ...
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Will referrer info get lost in Google Analytics if i 301 from HTTP to HTTPS?
If we have a bunch of backlinks from HTTPS sites, but they link to the http://example.com version of our site or example.com.
Even if our site is HTTPS and once traffic gets driven to those URLS ...
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How do web servers identify the client's location
Many websites directs the user to specific subdomains or domains based on their location. For example, if a user based in the UK types yahoo.com, the user somehow redirected to uk.yahoo.com. If the ...
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Implement 2000 redirects in an SEO friendly way without slowing the site down [duplicate]
I currently have two e-commerce websites, a new one, built on WooCommerce with ~1700 products and an old one, custom built with ~2100 products.
I want to delete the old one and use it's domain and ...
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How to redirect from blog.example.org to example.com using htaccess
I have tried all means to do a 301 redirect from blog.example.org to https://www.example.com/post using .htaccess but the redirect doesn't seem to be working.
I'm using this code below;
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Do deindexed URLs pass link juice? [duplicate]
I am building some backlinks to a page of my website that is high likely to get deindexed (I have to build to that specific page) mainly because of duplicate content.
Will my page, if deindexed, pass ...
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Redirect domain name to a specific page
I have theses domain names installed:
Main domain name: www.example.com
Others domains:
www.example.org
www.example.fr
www.animals.example
I first made a rule on my .htaccess to redirect all ...
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Configure redirects with web.config
have a WP multisite that created the following web.config files at bottom ( works perfectly ). However, how do I create 301 redirects for individual pages in the subsites?
** WP generated web.config
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301 Redirect not working as expected
I am in the process of doing a website redesign. We have changed the domain name and hosting server for the new project. Following are the rules that I am using in my htaccess file to perform a 301 ...
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Redirect 301 with an exception
Good evening, having to "dismiss" the old gov.it site in favor of the new edu.it, they advised me to set the following .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.oldsite\.gov\.it$ [...
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301 redirect not passing refer details to GA. Can i use a UTM tracking link in the 301 instead?
I have a link to a site i manage on a 3rd party domain.
The link is actually to an old site which i then 301 to the current site.
All the sites are http, but somewhere along the way the HTTP refer ...
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Where to place 301 redirects in my Wordpress htaccess file?
I have about 25 301 redirects in my Wordpress htaccess file, that look like this:
Redirect 301 /store/index.html https://www.notesinspanish.com/store-home/
At the moment they are at the bottom of my ...
