301 is the HTTP status code for a permanent redirect.
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How to remove old domain that we don't have control over for branded searches that should only show our new site?
I changed my company website URL from www.tirnav.in to www.tirnav.com.
Google Webmaster had already indexed my earlier website i.e tirnav.in and now when i search google for Tirnav Solutions it still ...
0
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1answer
31 views
HTTPS + IP not redirecting to configured Domain Name and gives “Your connection is not private” [Nginx/Ubuntu]
I am using NGINX for 301 redirects on Ubuntu and reverse proxy for my Web Application and aim is to redirect traffic to non-www url such as https://mywebapplication.example.
So with my current ...
2
votes
2answers
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Wordpress htaccess redirect from http to https
Currently I use this rule on my WordPress .htaccess file to redirect HTTP to HTTPS:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{...
2
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2answers
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Is it bad for SEO to 301 redirect the homepage URL to a deeper URL?
For some reason we need to 301 redirect homepage URL to another URL for a while. Eg:
we would use a 301 redirect from www.example.com to www.example.com/a-catgory/b-catgory
we would add a canonical &...
1
vote
1answer
37 views
404 to 301 Permanent Redirect a good idea?
I have a domain which I bought in 2013 and stopped working on it in 2015. I recently started to work on it again. The website had around 150 articles which I deleted a long time ago.
While none of ...
1
vote
1answer
22 views
Lost SEO after domain change. Can it be duplicate content?
So, I have a niche blog started in June 2017. After the first year (with around one day before the expiration date), I have changed the domain, because the old one wasn't related to the niche. But, I ...
0
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2answers
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Is it good idea to redirect (301) domain+links without “Address Change” in Google Webmaster?
Lets say, I want to move most of my site content from example.com to a1.com, but also want to put i.e. 20 pages to a2.com.
Mainly I care about page-rank to be transited well.
what are best way to do ...
3
votes
1answer
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Will GoDaddy's domain forwarding affect subdomains?
I have an old domain registered with GoDaddy. Let's say it's olddomain.com. I want olddomain.com and www.olddomain.com to go to www.newdomain.com. The complication is that I have a few subdomains ...
1
vote
1answer
44 views
is it recommended to change all old 302 redirections to 301?
I have a client which has 302 redirected all the http pages to https pages 4 years ago.
Now is it recommended to change all the 302 redirections to 301 or should I keep them the same?
Also they have ...
1
vote
2answers
20 views
Backend method to changing base wordpress domain to prevent redirect
My friend has come to me today to tell me he wants his wordpress site moved from example.com to example2.com.
I have full access to the same server managing both those URLs, I copied the entire file ...
0
votes
1answer
14 views
Swapping canonical urls [duplicate]
Let's say I have previously registered a domain blab.la and have already submitted it to google search console, it is indexed and available in search results.
Now, I have purchased another domain ...
1
vote
1answer
30 views
Is it ok to put canonical tags on 301 redirected pages?
I redirected my e-commerce website from Http to Https. Now I want to implement canonical tags for similar products to avoid duplicate issue. In my product pages the permalink is the HTTP version but ...
1
vote
1answer
30 views
A website has more than 5000 404 Errors, is this a problem? [duplicate]
I have a website of one of my clients that allows the user to delete pages by themselves with a form. When a page is deleted the website generates a 404 Error.
The deleted pages total about 5000, and ...
-1
votes
1answer
36 views
I cannot do https redirection on my website on .htaccess
Am having a local classified website. I bought SSL for the domain but cannot put https redirect on htaccess since my developer wrote somerule on htaccess to get url for SEO. Can some help for the same....
2
votes
1answer
90 views
301 redirect with masking on GoDaddy
We are using GoDaddy platform to put meta tags. We have 200 domains name some for the brand; some are related to our product. We want to redirect (301) all of 200 domain names to our main one with ...
1
vote
0answers
58 views
Will introducing a CDN for images on a subdomain dilute our PageRank or hurt our rankings?
Background:
We run a product aggregator site. We list 20k products which will grow to 200k within the next year and also have a section of the site where users can take those product images and ...
4
votes
2answers
289 views
What causes “redirect notice” in Google search?
Occasionally, I get "Redirect Notice" pages when I click on Google search results. My website does have a landing page redirect, but no redirect notice shows up when I click on it in Google search. I ...
0
votes
1answer
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Google Consider HTTPs over HTTP - How to redirect https to http without losing traffic
I have not installed SSL nor enable on my website, however the hosting companies did it.
Now Google started crawling https pages over http.
I have uninstall the ssl form Hosting Cpanel today.
...
1
vote
1answer
18 views
Google search console doesn't allow me to move to a new domain that has a path
Gwt notify me that I can moved my old domain (www.olddomain.com) to my new domain only if there's no path on my new domain. But in this case, I have to move my old domain (www.olddomain.com) to (www....
2
votes
1answer
28 views
Redirecting a PHP page that should normally only have a Query String
I have a page that is the "template" to hold item information, for example:
https://example.org/item/
Normally though, a user will only ever get to this page with a query string attached
https://...
1
vote
0answers
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301 Redirection for a New URL in New Website
I have a internal page in example.com with around 10,000 organic traffic per month, but I am not making any money from it.
I am building a new blog called example2.com in near future with monetizing ...
0
votes
1answer
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301 Redirects and Link Values [duplicate]
I recently moved my website to a new domain but seems like the link values are not passed till yet. I researched it a bit and found on Moz documentation that it may take sometime before the link ...
0
votes
1answer
17 views
Redirection from main domain to add-on domain
I want to redirect the main domain to an add-on domain using 301: Is it important that the main domain will be the one pointing to the add-on domain? Does this have any negative effect from a ...
3
votes
1answer
253 views
How to Redirect Pages with Query String?
I want to Redirect as seen below:
https://example.com/p1/p2?sort=p.model&order=ASC&page=2
to
https://example.com/p3/p4?sort=p.model&order=ASC&page=2
Also, I have this code in my ....
0
votes
0answers
16 views
Apache: Redirect aspx url with multiple query strings [duplicate]
Recently I migrated from aspx to PHP. I want a redirect rule as following
from:
http://www.example.com/fr/video.aspx?id=27&p=xxx
to:
http://www.example.com/fr/video/the-first-time
I need to ...
5
votes
1answer
275 views
Is it necessary to add a canonical tag for a static site switching from HTTP to HTTPS if there is already a 301 Redirect?
We have a static site that has thousands of HTML pages and are planning to switch to HTTPS in the next few days. As the site is fairly new, we do not have any problems with duplicate content at the ...
2
votes
1answer
23 views
For documents that get generated with a new version id, how should I handle the old URLs? Robots.txt, 301 redirect, or create permanent URLs?
The site I am working on has around 800 products, some of these can have up to 2000 PDF and CAD drawings each.
The links to these PDF and CAD files are combined into a single object and then linked ...
2
votes
1answer
107 views
How to redirect all pages of site A, including those with query strings, to homepage of site B
I want to redirect all pages of SiteA to homepage of SiteB.
I used this code in SiteA's .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://SiteB.tld/ [...
-1
votes
1answer
11 views
How to direct main domain pages to sub domain [duplicate]
One of my client had a wordpress website say www.example.com.au in wordpress
As they wanted to have separate websites for different locations, we created subdomains for each location like sydney....
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vote
0answers
29 views
How to redirect multiple URL's to the same URL. [closed]
I have been searching for a solution to this but can't find a good answer. I am trying to achieve the following through Wordpress with the Yoast SEO plugin.
Here is what I am trying to do:
I need to ...
0
votes
1answer
28 views
site lost all traffic after installing ssl and moved to a new domain, 301 redirect
About a month ago, I moved my site from http://www.etihadassessment.com to https://www.cabincrewevents.com. My traffic went from 5k pagesviews a day to only 400-600 a day.
I have tested few tools and ...
2
votes
1answer
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Will a shorter version of our domain show up in Google?
Our domain is www.blablablablaXXblablablba.com
We do not want to change this, but instead we want to "add" a redirection domain (301 redirect): www.XX.eu (which will make it easier for people to ...
1
vote
0answers
29 views
.htaccess redirect to new domain with new page name [closed]
Does anyone know how (or if) I can do an .htaccess redirect if both the domain and page name have changed?
I can get olddomain.com/page/ to redirect to newdomain.com/page/ (same page name), but not ...
3
votes
1answer
44 views
Are there any tools in Google Search Console for removing URLs with 301 redirects?
In Google Search Console, I am getting 15-20 all different URLs in 404 section which is not in proper format(this URL is too old around 6-7 years and there is no 'Linked from' for this URLs). I want ...
2
votes
1answer
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URLs include a directory without an index page, should it be removed for SEO?
A client's website has the following structure:
/products/product-1
/products/product-2
/products/product-3
These product urls are keyword optimised pages for organic search.
Google also indexes /...
0
votes
0answers
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Googlebot not indexing language subdirectory
I've language based subdirectories, which is changed by user's country.
Let's say if user request from Poland
example.com 302 redirects to example.com/pl
example.com/pl 301 redirects to example.com/...
1
vote
0answers
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Why does SEMrush report lots of backlinks from the 301 redirected old website to the new one?
The old version of the website is http://example.com and they 301 redirected it to the new URL, https://example.se.
I was checking the domain in SEMrush and it was 2.8k backlinks from the old website ...
1
vote
2answers
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How to ensure historic backlinks point to primary domain
Hope someone can assist with this DNS/Redirection issue. I'll try to keep this to the point.
There are two domains and two subdomains to deal with.
olddomain.com is with registrar A. newdomain.com ...
1
vote
1answer
33 views
Does a 301 redirect at the server level work when the host of the new website is different from the old one's?
We are doing a site migration. the URL path and the protocol will change. Also we will move the website to a new server host. The web agency says that they will do the 301 redirects in server level ...
1
vote
2answers
576 views
How to redirect all pages in /directory/ to webpage with htaccess
I am trying to redirect all pages on my site in one directory to a specific page using htaccess.
Example anything like
example.com/forums/
example.com/forums/pages
example.com/forums/subdirectory/
...
3
votes
1answer
104 views
Why would googlebot be trying to crawl a URL “https://www.example.com/https://www.example.com/other/things”?
I've been trying to clean up crawl errors on my company's website. In one menu, google bot is trying to crawl every link with an extra-base URL attached. These pages (perhaps obviously) don't exist ...
1
vote
0answers
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.htaccess How to redirect some specific pages, then a blanket rule to new domain?
I am creating a new website on a new domain, and doing page-to-page redirects from the old website for (A) all static pages, as well as (B) all blog posts.
A) The static pages follow a new URL ...
0
votes
1answer
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Will client sites on clientsite.mydomain.com affect SEO at www.mydomain.com?
Example:
Petterson Rekvisitta is a company I am building a website for. He has a domain: petterson.com, and will eventually move there.
During development I set up his site on petterson.mydomain.com ...
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vote
1answer
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How to use htaccess file for site migration?
We are doing a site migration. The protocol will change from HTTP to HTTPS.
The server IP will differ (but in the same region), as the web agency says we can not have the same domain on two IPs.
So ...
1
vote
0answers
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SEO: Redirect root to a sub-dir, build new content on root, keep old rankings for redirected sub-dir
I want to move our page from site.example to www.site.example/home but keep the SEO rankings from when that same content resided on the root domain.
Then I want to build back up the site.example ...
1
vote
1answer
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Do URL redirects negatively affect SEO when part of a site restructuring?
I understand that no 'Link Juice' is lost, when implementing a 301 Redirect for the purposes of redirecting from http to https prefixes.
What about redirects, when a site goes under a restructure?
...
2
votes
1answer
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.htaccess - how do i redirect TLDs?
I'm currently using my .htaccess to force all HTTP requests to HTTPS, and that is working very well. However I would also like to redirect some TLDs. For example -
http(s)://(www.)example.info -> ...
1
vote
3answers
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Buying a domain name - How can I ensure that it hasn't expired or been 301 redirected before?
I'm thinking about buying a domain name from a seller.
The Verisign Whois information shows that it was registered in 2011.
Are there any instances in which a domain could drop/expire and yet the ...
0
votes
2answers
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Does putting canonical remove duplicate issue OR we should do permanent redirect [duplicate]
We have certain URLs of the city and their alias-names. For example:
Primary URL: /used/cars-in-mumbai/
Alias URL: /used/cars-in-bombay/
We can't remove "Alias URL" as it's hard-coded at multiple ...
4
votes
1answer
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How to redirect from https://hi@example.com/x, to just https://example.com/x (htaccess)?
I have a weird problem where for some reason search engines see that I have duplicate URLs, like https://hi@example.com/x and https://example.com/x
I'd like the first (i.e. with hi@) to 301 redirect ...
