Help required regarding redirect a url

Help required regarding redirect a url. I have a website and offering seriveces. one of my service page is domain.com/x_y_z and having PR2. I want to change this url like domain.com/v_x_y_x, what is the better way to save my PR2. should I redirect my current url to new url or I need to do seo work on new url?

 

Both... You want to 301 redirect domain.com/x_y_z to domain.com/v_x_y_x so that domain.com/v_x_y_x gets credit for all inbound links to domain.com/x_y_z. All future link development, however, should be done by building links to the new URL - domain.com/v_x_y_x.

 

Hi,

Use 301 redirect...a great way to secure your PR.

---Sar

 

hmmm ok I will go for 301 redirect to save my webpage PR. thnx for kind reply

 

Hello,

You can use 301 Permanent Redirect Function for your both url, so you will get one url back links benefit to other URL.

 

using 301 redirect you can redirect all ur old urls to new url with out lost of pr.

 

Hello,
Use 301 Permanent Redirect Function for your both url to get back links benefit.Also I suggest for SEO on both of the link.

 

Hi,
Perhaps you got your answer.Thanks for the post.

 

One more thing when should I down (offline) my old link?

 

When redirecting web pages which have been deleted or permanently moved, the 301 redirect has to remain in place forever if you want the new URL to continue to get credit for the old URL. If you remove the 301 redirect later, the new URL will begin losing credit for the inbound links to the old URL.

If you're hosted on an Apache web server then you can 301 redirect using Mod_Rewrite and .htaccess files. You can do this in the example you gave by adding something like the following to your .htaccess file in the root of your web:

After the .htaccess rules above are in place to perform the redirect, you can delete the old web page at x_y_z. Mod_Rewrite will continue to redirect requests for x_y_z to v_x_y_x as long as the rule above is in place (which should be indefinitely) inside your .htaccess file.

If you're not hosted on an Apache web server then you'll likely have to 301 redirect in code using a server side scripting language (without Mod_Rewrite I HOPE you're using a server-side scripting language like PHP or .NET). In this case you modify the code in the old web page to return a 301 Moved Permanently HTTP Status with a Location of the the new URL. In this case, the old page will have to remain in place for as long as you want the new page to receive credit for links to the old page.

 

ok thnx for ur kind reply. now I understand

 

need another help. when I decided to do a redirect method and also done it but after 3 to 4 days I decided to leave my old URL as my targeted URL it was /x_y_z. I did it but the problem is now is that Google has indexed my other link and when I search my term I found my other link /v_x_y_x not the current link. what to do now? should I redirect this link to my old URL /x_y_z that is live now? or should wait for google to index my old URL again? but peoples those are following /v_x_y_x from google are going to a not found page. need such a good help.

 

Simply change:

to:

This will remove the old URL->new URL redirect and redirect requests for the new URL to the old URL to stop the user from being sent to the Not Found page.

 

Ok, u mean I should redirect new url to old url and when google index will be updated and my old url will be in the index then I should remove the new url because I m not useing new url for off-page optimizations? m I correct Canonical? and also it will not hirt my old url PR2?

 

Canonical waiting for your kind reply in this regards.