301 Redirect

OK, I have search for how to do a 301 redirect, but the search comes up with a lot of $%^# I don't want to read through. Does anyone know of a thread that explains it?

 

hope that help.

 

different way to doing redirect for 1 page or several pages.

RewriteEngine ON
Redirect 301 /old-page.html http://www.newdomain/new-page.html

Code (markup):

 

This is from a file I actually had open in Dreamweaver when I saw this thread. For ASP files.

 

and to convert that to php:

<?
header("HTTP 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.learnaboutspam.com/spam/default.asp");
?>

PHP:

 

I guess I don't really know what a 301 redirect accomplishes. Is it just sending the user/bot to a different page. Sort of like a meta refresh? (only different)

IIS 5 is what I am using.

 

A 301 tells the browser (and SEs) that the requested document has been moved permanently to another location and also what this new location is.

Meta refreshes are almost ignored by SEs as they can be conditional.

 

<?
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://somesite.com/");
exit;
?>

PHP:

301's can be conditional too