February 8, 2008

How to do a 301 Redirect - Search-Engine Friendly

Posted by Alice Seba

If you are moving pages around your site (i.e. changing file names or moving a whole entire website) and you want to increase your chances of retaining your search engine rankings, Google recommends using a 301 redirect and so does Yahoo.

Here’s a detailed video by Lynette Chandler that shows you how to do a 301 redirect using cpanel hosting (and shows you how to deal with those pesky links that get messed up in cpanel):

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  1. Dennis Edell on February 9th, 2008 1:52 pm

    Thanks a bunch Alice. This is something I’ve wanted to learn for quite some time.

    I’ve asked on several forums, but never received such a non-techie, techie response (if that makes sense lol)

    Dennis

  2. Elizabeth Ashe on April 29th, 2008 7:11 am

    Another great video Lynette, and it makes everything much clearer to me with redirects. thanks again.

  3. Diane Stafford on June 25th, 2008 1:17 pm

    Thanks Alice for getting me back to this video, just what I needed clarified regarding the htaccess redirect. thanks

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