Comments on: The Little 301 That Could

By: James

James — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:32:50 +0000

For more info on how to use a 301 redirect on your site or blog visit: http://techspotting.org/htaccess-301-redirect-pages-or-entire-site/

By: D. Morgan Henley

D. Morgan Henley — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:16:30 +0000

I am wondering about using a 301 on my blog to take visitors directly to an affiliate product. In the past I have basically duplicated a merchant’s site on one of my pages as a pre-sell and supplied a button to take interested parties to the product site. Since the copy on my pre-sell page is never as good, comprehensive, or as well designed as provided by the selling merchant, I’m thinking that I should just give up being the middle man and let the merchant do the selling. Is this a bad tactic from a seo point of view, or from any other point of view, for that matter?

By: SC

SC — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:37:53 +0000

I’m curious what adverse affects GoDaddy’s redirects have when redirecting to MS’s Office Live Websites. GoDaddy now offers 302s, 301s, and “permanent with masking”, which is said to also be a 301.

Office Live sets its people up with a default site on their server with a [yourname].[your category].officelive.com/default.aspx domain. Users can then choose to make their own url “primary”, which will then be [your url].com/default.aspx

So, users have their domains redirected with a “301 with masking” to make sure the correct (and short) domain shows in the address bar, and MSN is adding “/default.aspx” to that (on the homepage, obviously).

Is this wreaking havoc on rankings or PR (which show as zero, I believe incorrectly) or causing canonical issues? Visitors can get to Office Live sites with or without the “www”, but there’s no access permitted by MS to that at all by the webmaster/owner. Would GoDaddy’s standard 301 (without masking) have the same intended effect here (showing the short domain) and cause less problem for the search engines and/or PR?

To the same effect, should site owners be listing “[their site].com” or “[their site.com/default.aspx" with sites and directories. Google has cached every page, for example, except for the domain WITHOUT the "/default.aspx", although it's always entered simply as "[xyz].com”. Perhaps this is why it’s not getting a PR, etc.??

Great blog. Thank you. And all input is greatly appreciated.

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