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301 Redirect and Google

Discussion in 'Apache' started by ResaleBroker, Aug 16, 2004.

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    I recently added a 301 redirect to my .htaccess file for my index page.

    Googles cache results for the index page "were" being updated every other day.

    Now the cache results show a page from 2 weeks back and haven't changed for more than a week.

    How long do you think it will take before Google starts showing this redirect?

    Thanks!
     
    ResaleBroker, Aug 16, 2004 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    What are you redirecting to? The page you are redirecting from will disappear from the index altogether at some point.
     
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  3. ResaleBroker

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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    The cache is old because there is no such page anymore. As I mentioned, at some point that page will disappear from the index altogether.
     
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    I don't mind if the index page dissappears as long as any page rank that index page had transfers to the new page.
     
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    The redirect will kick in right away, but the Page rank normally take one, or sometimes 2 PR/B updates to kick in. Yahoo on the other hand is crap at handling 301's ;)
     
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    On a similar vein...
    How do I configure mod_rewrite to change "any" instance of;

    listingview...
    to
    real-estate-listings/listingview...

    Thanks!
     
    ResaleBroker, Aug 16, 2004 IP
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    Which is a colossal pain in the, ah, elbow, and seems grossly unfair. Does anyone have any idea of why G does things this way? It must be the commonest thing for people to re-organize sites, or break out what was a sub-site into its own domain. Why is there this bizarre delay in equating the new with the old? (It just kills me: I had a single page of one site that was #1 for its term, moved it to a new site of its own, even added in some other pages, and the whole thing vanishes without a trace of either old or new in the SERPs; had another "sub-site" that was #8/#9 for its term, same story; and this has happened before. Sure, in the fullness of time they return, but WHY this maddening and needless dropout period?)

    I assume from the ellipsis mark that there would be text following listingview that you would want passed on. If so, I believe this would do it:

    RewriteRule listingview(.*)$ http://www.real-estate-listings.com/listingview($1) [L,R=301]​
     
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    Hello Eric,
    Thank you for the help. If I can get this to work I won't have to redirect the index page and can avoid any hassle that comes with doing that.

    The URL's that I want to redirect look like this:

    • http://www.resalebroker.com/listingview.php?listingID=2

    I need the URL's to look like this
    • http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview.php?listingID=2

    I tried the rewrite you suggested but it isn't working. Any ideas?

    Thanks again,
     
    ResaleBroker, Aug 17, 2004 IP
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    I played around with the code you provided and this "almost" works. The only thing wrong is it is leaving off the .php in the second instance.

    • RewriteRule listingview.php(.*)$ http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview$1 [L,R=301]
    Outputs:
    http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview()?listingID=2

    Thanks for the help!
     
    ResaleBroker, Aug 17, 2004 IP
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    I finally figured it out. The code that works is:

    RewriteRule ^listingview* http://www.resalebroker.com/real-estate-listings/listingview.php$1 [L,R=301]

    Thanks everyone. I appreciate it!
     
    ResaleBroker, Aug 19, 2004 IP