Questions tagged [301-redirect]
301 is the HTTP status code for a permanent redirect.
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Nginx 301 redirects folders appending a slash
Nginx is currently doing the following:
example.com/folder
301 redirect to:
example.com/folder/
How can I prevent it from doing this?
Thanks.
Edit: Added Nginx configuration
server {
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How to remove duplicate URL in Magento site?
I have Magento site and there are so many 301 redirected pages.
For example, www.example.com/catalog/product/view/id/910/category/3 is redirected to www.example.com/engine-parts/2000-2004-vw-sharan-...
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301 redirect specific URLs
I have a lot of 404 pages looks like that:
lalala/lalala/Users_PasswordReminder.aspx?something=lala
lilili/lilili/Users_PasswordReminder.aspx
/Users_PasswordReminder.aspx?username=admin
etc.
I want ...
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Godaddy redirect doesn't show file names in URL
Bought a Godaddy doman and redirected & masked it (301) to a temporal free hosting site(freehostingeu), the redirection and masking works perfectly but the URL of the various pages in my server's ...
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Redirecting a Preview DNS subdomain to a domain with htaccess
I want to redirect all the WordPress urls of the form
http://example.com.previewdns.com/my-favorite-post/ to
http://example.com/my-favorite-post/
I am trying to do this with the below .htaccess ...
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Website migration from WordPress to a static site and doing 301 redirects without access to existing site?
Currently working on a project that is a hosted on WordPress that is being migrated to a static site. However I presently do not have access to the existing site as it's managed by another developer. ...
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Proper syntax for .htaccess Rewrite
I'm very new at this so apologies if this is too easy, but would this be proper syntax for redirecting an entire site to a new domain? This is what was suggested so my other concern is blank lines, ...
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Is there any difference, from Google's point of view, on the method used for a 301 redirect?
I have a website with an extremely good Google rank for it's particular niche. I've rebranded and need to redirect to a new URL. In the eyes of Google, what's the difference, if any, between the ...
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Why Google Webmaster Tools list HTTP status 303 as crawl error?
There is another interesting question about status 303 and seo here but it does not answer me why status 303 appears now in GWT in the crawl errors section since end of January. In my understanding ...
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SEO changing main domain in Google Search results?
At the moment there is 3 domains pointing to same server for content, and of course their have the canonical URL set to tell Google about the duplicate content, but the questions is, if we take into ...
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Is www redirection (301) essential or not?
I am new to SEO, and I have a website like StackExchange. I found one thing remarkably about my site is that www redirection (301) is not active. Is it essential?
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SEO impact of 301 permanent redirecting a domain to a sub-directory of another domain?
I had my own experience of 301 permanently redirecting a domain to another (every page mapped) and Google properly worked everything out and it never had any problem SEO-wise. However, what if I'm ...
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Is 301 redirecting of *.example.com to example.com dangerous?
I bought a domain which has several subdomains that don`t exist anymore but are indexed in Google.
Is it dangerous from the SEO perspective to do 301 redirect to my homepage from all kind of ...
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redirect www to non-www (CNAME needed?)
I want to redirect http://www.example.com to http://example.com.
I would like to avoid duplicated content. Is 301 redirect in nginx sufficent? Is it needed for me to add a CNAME record? My concern ...
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301 redirect from new page to old to keep PageRank?
I need to change a URL of an interior page that has a Google PageRank of 4. It was recommended by a coworker that I create the new URL but have it redirect to the old one, thus allowing a buildup of ...
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301 redirect from one domain to another - what to do in Google Webmaster Tools
I have a Wordpress site in Network mode, using subdomains.
I had a site indexed as subdomain.example.com.
I recently purchased a domain, example2.com say.
Using the plugin "WordPress MU Domain ...
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Unifying pages: 301 or canonical
I'm combining three existing urls into one.
Till now I have:
http://mydomain.com/folder1/page1
http://mydomain.com/folder2/page2
http://mydomain.com/folder3/page3
Content from all three pages will ...
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How can I create a 301 redirect with non-English characters in the URL?
I would like to do 301 redirect from http://www.test.de/kollektion/b%C3%BCgel%20bh to http://www.test.de/bhs/bugel-bhs+balconette.
I tried to create a redirection rule, but it's not working even ...
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Should I replace non-user friendly URLs with friendly ones, and if so, how?
I have just added my site to Google Web Master Tools and discovered that some links (for example: In the section "Search Query / Top pages") have a URL format like:
example.com/page.php?id=1234
This ...
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Redirect to the correct URL without trailing slashes [duplicate]
My correct URL is http://mydomine.com/cars/register.php (without slash in the end).
But I send emails to our customers with wrong URL http://mydomine.com/cars/register.php/ (with slash in the end).
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Fetch as google - getting both 301 and 404
I am getting this from fetch as Google:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:07:58 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 20
Connection: keep-alive
Status: ...
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Rebranding: how do I redirect my website to a new domain, and blog to a subdomain?
I have a website that I am rebranding and using a new domain name for. Right now it is primarily a blog hosted at the root.
I am going to be redirecting from www.old.com to www.new.com, and I also ...
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How to redirect old page link to new link when using new CMS for website [duplicate]
We are doing a new website and the current website www.domains.com has been running for almost 3 years and is quite visible on search engines.
Now we are working on new website with multilingual ...
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Getting the redirected page to show up in SERP instead of the target
I have a site that is listed on a sitebuilder site with their own domain which in this example lets call this siteA.com/myaccountnumber/index.html.
I've purchased a domain siteB.com and I've setup a ...
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301 Redirect to another website
I have a website that ranks highly on Google for a particular page.
For example:
http://www.domain.com/products/product-name
We have built a new website at its own domain, for example:
http://www....
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301 redirect causing Bingbot to crash, redirection limit reached
Inside my .htaccess file, I have the following script:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
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Is it ok to 301 redirect deleted pages to the homepage in order to preserve link juice? -- Even if the homepage is unrelated content?
I'm about to delete 40+ pages that have quality link juice (I'm deleting them for copy write issues). I'd prefer not to do a 404 header on all of them, because I want to preserve inbound links to ...
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Parked Domains instead of 301
I have a number of domains that were 301 redirects to certain area's or the domain (example pizzaparis.com would redirect to the paris page on the site) and for some reason or another lost their ...
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Remove query string from 301 redirect URL
I'm having some trouble with redirects and I haven't been able to get this to work. I want to make the following
http://www.example.com/seasonal/christmas?p=15
redirect to
http://www.example.com/...
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Canonicalization for www/non-www URLs and IP/domain on a Windows server
I have checked my website using this SEO tool and the results report 2 issues:
Test your site for potential URL canonicalization issues. Canonicalization describes how a site can use slightly ...
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Impact of migrating whole site from HTTP to HTTPS
We migrated our website to HTTPS everywhere and we have setup a 301 redirect on all the pages when the protocol is HTTP. However, one of the SEO experts who is helping us with all things SEO sent us ...
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Two stage Apache rewrite not working
I had a list of "Redirect permanent path/to/url1 http--//domain2.com/path/to/url2" rules working as a test, but when I attempted to couple them with mod_rewrite rules to catch non-matching domain1 url ...
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Rewrite URLs not working - wrong method or conflict?
I've been at this for about an hour now and I'm not having much luck. htaccess files are quite new to me, so I'm obviously doing something very wrong.
Current htaccess content, which I need to keep:
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Using .htaccess to set a cookie and 301 redirect
I currently have in my .htaccess:
RewriteRule ^$ http://chfmaine.com/ [CO=moved:yes:chfmaine.com:1/,R=301,NE,NC,L]
I was basing this off of this post.
That's a lot more than I need but the setting ...
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Creating a new 200 OK page on an address that previously served a 301 redirect?
Let's say I create a page aaa.htm; after some time it gets removed in favor of bbb.htm.
At this point aaa.htm responds with a 301 redirect to bbb.htm.
Now again, after some more amount of time, I ...
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Original domain (which is 301 redirected) meta description doesn't update
I have a domain name example.com which I 301 redirected to www.example.com.
Problem is when I search for the website on Google, it shows the .com rather than the www. So the .com meta description ...
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How to make better RESTful links SEO on static content website with Apache and PHP Router
I have a pretty old website (running on Apache) that serves around 50 static HTML pages.
And so I want to change it and add PHP Router to help me serve content in a RESTful way.
Now I have tried ...
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duplicate content - can't use 301 or canonical tag
I recently started managing SEO for a client. I'm seeing a lot of duplicate content on their site but their custom CMS doesn't allow canonical tags, and I was told by their team that we can't use 301s....
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Affiliate backlinks with 301 redirect not displaying in Webmaster Tools
I have an affiliate program that is hosted on a different site and server. It is an eCommerce site that accepts payments for my products. So all my affiliate links are pointing to this eCommerce site ...
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Implemented wrong 301 redirect and now traffic is decreasing
Last week we migrated our legacy site to a new site created via WordPress. I implemented all 301 redirects, but a lot of them were done improperly by my developer.
As such, a lot of pages were ...
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Redirect link of old webpage to new webpage in Joomla 2.5
I have modified my website www.vidyaniketan.in. It is a Joomla 2.5 site. When I search for it in Google by URL, there are several sub-links displayed (e.g., "ABOUT US"). this links to the old webpage. ...
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301 redirects, query strings and SEO
We have recently consolidated one site into another one. We set up all of our 301s and those all work famously. The bulk of the 301s (including the old site's homepage) land on an interior page of ...
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change of address to subdomain [duplicate]
I have moved a domain "http://flymusic" to "http://www.1.flymusic".
The "Change of Address Tool" in webmasters tools won't allow me to tell Google about the new URL because it is a sub-domain.
and ...
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301 redirect from HTTP to HTTPS - how to be sure Google is fetching the correct information?
I'm hoping somebody might be able to provide a bit of advice on an issue I am having.
I have one site where we implemented a 301 redirect on the homepage from HTTP to HTTPS. We have links on the ...
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Somehow Google considers a properly 301'd URL as 200 and is still indexing the new content in old page?
We redirected all the old URL's to new ones properly using .htaccess. The problem is Google, somehow is still finding content in the old page (which it shouldn't) and stores it in the cache rather ...
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Will a rel=canonical link pointing to a 301 redirect pass less pagerank than one without a 301?
On this official Google page about canonical links it says:
Can rel="canonical" be a redirect?
Yes, you can specify a URL that redirects as a canonical URL. Google will then process the ...
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Bad links point to old domain - should I disavow on new domain?
I am working with a site which we'll call www.newdomain.com, which was hit by Penguin this month despite no unusual practices.
I found lots of really spammy links to their old site, www.olddomain.com,...
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Does purposely linking to an invalid URL and then using 301 affect SEO?
On a section of my site, I am currently using .htaccess rewrites to put the ID as part of the URL instead of in the query, like so:
RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)?/?tours/([0-9]+)/(.*) /tours/tour_text.php?...
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How to redirect a international domain to a subfolder on the English site without hurting Google rankings?
I have two sites:
www.example.de
www.main.com
www.main.com is English version of www.example.de which is in German. I want to keep only www.main.com. For the English version I will keep www.main.com,...
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Are backlinks transitive when old URL is forwarded to new URL?
Say there are two companies operating in the same industry: www.companya.com and www.companyb.com. Company A has acquired some backlinks over time.
Company B acquires company A and decides to only ...