How to do a 301 Redirect – Search-Engine Friendly

By Alice Seba On February 8, 2008 Under Blog, Internet Marketing Tools
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):

About: Alice Seba

Alice Seba earns a full-time online income as an entrepreneur and loves to help others achieve the same. With a focus on using content to create relationships, loyalty and results from the written word, she co-owns both a ghostwriting service and a private label content business. To get more tips for your content marketing, visit Contentrix.com - your free resource with plenty of tips and strategies.

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3 Responses to “How to do a 301 Redirect – Search-Engine Friendly”

  1. Dennis Edell

    February 9, 2008

    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

    Reply

  2. Elizabeth Ashe

    April 29, 2008

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

    Reply

  3. Diane Stafford

    June 25, 2008

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

    Reply

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