Sunday, December 16, 2007

Sitewide 301 Redirect

Got a new site going live next week (well new dev - domains been live for 2 years - PR5). Main job tomorrow is the (yawn) creation of a 200+ page sitewide 301 htaccess redirect.

For anyone who isn't familiar, this is a process that helps you pass the pagerank from the old site pages to the pages that have replaced them.

In our case we've totally re-written the page names and re-structured the directories to help the big G distiguish the site sections - so that's a whopping 200+ 301 redirects ;) Nifty!

See how to do a 301 redirect properly here:

http://www.tamingthebeast.net/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm

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