Comments on: The Little 301 That Could

By: Franklin Powers

Franklin Powers — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:13:02 +0000

As far as that DC is concerned, I have several pages with 301’s that look better compared to some of the others.

Thanks Matt

By: Doc Campbell

Doc Campbell — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:35:29 +0000

…Will they once again eventually index this page once the 301 redirect is removed or is it “Permanent?

It will be re-indexed andd is not permanent.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:05:40 +0000

I believe you addressed only 301s and Canonicals on the test DC? Looks very good and a thunbs-up from here.

Great Information Matt!

By: Jenny W

Jenny W — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:20:53 +0000

Here are 2 different ways to 301 Redirect on Apache. Thanks for all the inside info matt.. I love your blog! 301 Redirects with mod_alias or with mod_rewrite

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:32:47 +0000

I have installed a redirection script (301 redirects) called power red. My google traffic has been increased wit 30% and PR has been changed from 0 to 3

I’m not 100% sure if the redirect script has caused it but i’m happy with it.

By: Thomas Jones

Thomas Jones — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:41:27 +0000

My understanding is that Google would transfer the PR of 301 redirects if done properly. When that will happen for my site I don’t know, but it hasn’t happened so far. The point of this post is not about my PR. I focus on tweaking my PPC advertising, not organic SEO.

By: Dorje Shugden

Dorje Shugden — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:33:09 +0000

Here is an article that I have found useful about 301 redirects. I hope this helps you:
http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:45:22 +0000

When Analytics came out the inadverdent www and non www urls within our site could cause the tracking cookie to lose the visit data. Analytics keyword ROI data is critical for us. Since a lot of people don’t type www in urls we edited all our urls to non www and did a proper 301 redirect with mod_rewrite.

By: Dattu

Dattu — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:33:46 +0000

Can some one answer my question about Reversing a 301 Redirect

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Suppose you used a 301 redirect for a page you had moved. At a later date, you end up with a page using the old url that has now been redirected. If you remove the 301 from your .htaccess file that should be enough to stop the redirection but how about the search engines? Will they once again eventually index this page once the 301 redirect is removed or is it “Permanent”?

By: anonymous email

anonymous email — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:03:37 +0000

I set up a 301 Off-Domain redirect for an uniportant page on my website which is ranking NO.1 for a non competitive keyword.

Two weeks later Google catched up with the 301 redirect. I wondered which site does show up for the same keywords search. The old sites page or the new, off domain located page (off domain and also located in a different IP range)

What happend was: The Google keyword search for the same keyword showed up my old domain, just with another page.

After two months the new domain showed up, ranked No. 40 for the main domain. The old domain name still is ranking No.1. The new domains particular page does not show up at all.

Fazit: 301 redirect to another domain will not prevent your new site from ranking high on Google.

My solution: Keep your existing pages indexed! Especially if you rank well for a good keyword.

To a keyword related redirect. Which means if a user lands on the page, check for the server variables. They will tell you from where the user is coming from. If has searched Google for your targeted keyword, to a redirect. This way the Google spiders still index your old site, but users which are searching your site with the targeted keyword are automatically redirected.