[thelist] Re: Google and redirect handling

Mark S Jones msjones815 at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 7 09:53:55 CST 2003


I use the following in my .htaccess file:
Redirect permanent /oldpage.html http://www.mysite.com/newpage.shtml
You can check if you are getting a 301 permanent redirect here:
http://www.seologic.com/webmaster-tools/url-redirect.php
Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Morrison" <ben.morrison at dogstardesign.co.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 4:15 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Re: Google and redirect handling


> On 6/11/03 9:20 pm, "Cayley Vos" <cvos at netpaths.net> wrote:
>
> > Any redirect on the homepage will make you invisible to the search
engines.
> > However, there is an easy way around this. Do serverside browser
detection
> > and redirect from there.
> >
> > If a user agent is any browser,  redirect.  If the user agent  is not a
> > browser, send them to an HTML page.
>
> So why does google tell us to use 301 redirects:
>
> http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html
>
> Any info on this much appreciated as this is exactly what I have just
done.
>
> Ben
>
>
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