Comments on: Canonicalization update

By: Curious George

Curious George — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:43:33 +0000

Hi guys,

Did anyone ever answer Hawaii’s question about “200 redirects” ?
I’ve just come across them myself.
I would usually recommend 301 to my clients, but I’d like to know if
a 200 redirect is “search engine friendly” or not, with SEO in mind.

cheers,
G

By: Larry @ VoltRider Electric Bicycles

Larry @ VoltRider Electric Bicycles — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:52:56 +0000

Hi all…

Relative newbie here learning about all this after just creating a web site for my new business venture. I just published my site and Google searches just began displaying some of the pages last night. As I was exploring Webmaster Tools yesterday I discovered in the Settings tab the option to choose a preferred URL or not.

Have to admit this is a bit overwhelming for a beginner but I was wondering if someone could elaborate a bit more on how to check (and what to look for) with regard to “internal links”. I assume you’re referring to the links on each web page that link to all the other pages on your site? What is it that we should be looking for?

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:04:15 +0000

Hey Matt,

THanks for the great info.

My domain is hosted. Is this 301 redirect something I need to have my host configure, or is it a file I include like my sitemap?

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:53:59 +0000

On prominent sites, url’s such as (for example)
http://www.somedomain.com/folder/page.asp
…when removing the www [and hitting Enter]
http://somedomain.com/folder/page.asp

the http://somedomain.com/folder/page.asp quickly becomes
http://www.somedomain.com/folder/page.asp

…maintaining the entire url

However, if

http://www.somedomain.com/folder/page.asp has the www removed and becomes

http://www.somedomain.com

…and doesn’t maintain the entire url, what is set wrong? Or, what settings are wrong?

IIS6 Win 2k

Thanks in advance!

By: AJK

AJK — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:08:40 +0000

It would be really nice to know the effects of 301 redirect on PR. All the explanations everybody is giving, is how to successfully inform Google to index your new page, but nobody tells you what the effects are on your PR.

We are in the process of creating a new site with the same content as our current site, but management is so scared of losing PR, we are starting to lose all the gain we are suppose to be getting with the new design in regards to usability and presentation.

I am going to go bold before my time. Matt please help.

By: Julio Marketing de Sites

Julio Marketing de Sites — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:03:29 +0000

In the past I also had problems with lost PR on a 301 redirect. Is this common or I missed something?

By: SW

SW — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:38:16 +0000

Can you write more about this issue? Namely, something covering the difference between pages being viewed by Google as both http and https, even though there is a redirect to https in htaccess.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:33:03 +0000

Thanks for explaining it. I didn’t know that you could have the www in the url point to a different site. I’m checking both ways on my site now for pr!

ttyl

By: Sword

Sword — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:04:51 +0000

Thanks Matt for this explanation. I think this helps some of us understand why others have seen some minor and rare updates this time around, while everyone is waiting for the current PR update to occur. Many are freaking out because the current PR update seem so late and then they see the minor changes and think they’ve missed the boat, so hopefully this will put things in perspective for everyone.

By: AskApache

AskApache — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:42:32 +0000

No on Windows you need to use isapi_rewrite or IIS_rewrite, similar but nowhere near as good.

Take a look at this page it has examples: http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/list-of-methods-to-redirect-users-to-different-page.html