[thelist] 301 Redirect or...

Paul Waring paul at xk7.net
Tue Nov 8 05:34:40 CST 2005


On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:04:46PM -0600, Pringle, Ron wrote:
> Should I be creating 301 permanent redirects for main sections of content or
> just let the old links die a peaceful death and wait for the search engines
> to re-index?

If you put 301s in, I believe the major search engines (certainly Google
does this) will automatically update their indexes to point at the new
content. So you might want to do that for a while, then remove them
after a few months once everything has been pushed through, although I'd
recommend just leaving them in permanently.

Paul

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