Hi friends, while doing some searches I have seen an article telling details of 301 Redirect. and something about htaccess files. Frankly saying I don't know about it. What is the meaning and purpose of 301 Redirections? How it will help us in SEO? What is disadvantage If am not doing this to my site.? Is there any link with this 301 and un viewed traffic? My blogs hosting is not cpanel am using parellal's plesk panel how to do 301 redirection for my blog? Thanks for your kind advices..
If you buy a domain and do a 301 redirect to you main site, do you then accrue all the pagerank and backlinks for yourself? Or is some of it lost?
One example fo how 301 redirect can help is: A website can be viewed in two urls, http://example.com and http://www.example.com There is a big debate as to both urls can show duplicate content in the eyes of google Some say google bots has the ability to identify both as from the same domain, but effectively if you see, that is theoretically and practically as well, when you type the urls as such go to see the websites, it means both urls exist in the net, so u ask me yes there are two copies of your website So if you do a permanent reidirect or 301 of your http://example.com to http://www.example.com, first it will eliminate the duplicate content issues, second all the backlinks pointing at your http://example.com will start passing on the benefit to http://www.example.com As late as July 09, i have been able to do this and improve rankings and backlink counts for one of my old websites where in i had forgotten to do it earlier If your host has a Cpanel, then you can do it from the admin area itself without changing the .htaccess file
If you are renaming your website pages and you have incoming links to the old pages. Then you need to use a 301 redirect to tell the search engine that the file has moved permanently and it will pass on juice and backlinks.
hi friend, exactly this is the same issue am facing. I dont know how to do a 301 permanent redirect. I could not see a .htaccess file in the hosting panel. Do I have to create one? am using parellals plesk panel don't know where to do the change. As you said the same issue is with me both http//url and http//www.url are existing Can anybody help me solving this?