301 redirect and SEO

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  2. animesh

    animesh Active Member

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    dejvo01 Well-Known Member

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    I can´t redirect because I use Apache 2.2 on my server. And is under cutenews and mod_rewrite script for friendly urls...
     
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    You can redirect even with Apache 2.2. We do it without any issues.
     
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    agreed with amelen, htaccess file works on it.
    also, you can try php redirects.
     
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    Pretty much all of mysites are wordpress and I use the redirect plugin which makes things very easy. It will also automatically monitor permalinks so if you change one it will create a 301.
    I got into all sorts of trouble with htaccess and regular expressions!
     
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    Why would you redirect it to the same URL with the question mark? I don't think Google would care if you use an empty ? for the same reason it doesn't care if you link to /index.html or just /. They're the same. No redirect needed for either.
     
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    Agreed - you could redirect to with ? appended but, why would you?
    Stick with a normalized canonical, render it with your htaccess (or permalink if using wordpress).

    Also - recommend you use a canoncial link element to account for odd paramater inserts since you seem to be using paramaters on your page referrers (use a rel canonical which doesn't have the ?, just the normalized URL).
     
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