Recently i have moved from my blogspot to self hosted wordpress. And i have used meta refresh redirect from my blogspot to wordpress. I have installed javascript to redirect visitor from individual post pages to the corresponding post pages in my wordpress. But still i have some questions unanswered. 1. Will meta refresh redirect be considered as "301 redirect" for blogger?. Since there is no option to access .htaccess file in blogger account. 2. Will i get the same benefits for the new domain (science-hub.com) , which i had for my blogspost in terms of backlinks? . Since i have more than 5000 backlinks and PR4 for my blogspot. (science-hub.blogspot.com) UPDATE: <html> <head> <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> <!-- window.location.replace("http://www.science-hub.com/"); --> </script> <noscript> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://science-hub.com/"> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="10"/> <meta name="Description" content="301 moved permanently"/> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW"/> <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW"/> </noscript> <title>301 moved permanently</title> </head> <body> <center> <h1>World of Science</h1> <p>has been moved to new address</p> <a href=" http://www.science-hub.com"> <h1>http://www.science-hub</h1></a> <p>Sorry for inconvenience... </p> </center> </body> </html> This is the exact code which i used in my blogger account to redirect my visitors.. Is this fine?
May be this is a better way to convey google about ur new domain... Dont know whether it benefits with PR. Other DP experts should answer your query...
No. No. Your new site will not have any backlinks if you do not implement true 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs. When a browser and/or spider requests an old page at blogspot, it would have to return a 301 Permanently Moved status before the engines will transfer credit for the Old URL's inbound links to the target of the redirect. You'll basically be starting over from scratch. This is a common problem with ALL free webhosting which is why I always recommend that you NEVER use free web hosting for any site that you think has even a remote chance of becoming successful. When you get ready to go to your own domain, you are screwed and starting over from scratch. $8/month for web hosting is a small price to pay to know that should your site turn into a successful busines, you are not stuck with the option of 1) continuing to use the same free, limiting web hosting or 2) moving the site and starting over from scratch. This is not equivalent to a 301 redirect. When the browser requests science-hub.blogspot.com, the blogspot.com server is returning a 200 Ok status as if that page still existed . Then immediately (because of the <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"> element) the browser requests http://www.science-hub.com but this time it returns a 302 Temporarily Moved status and redirects the browser to the non-www version of the URL at http://science-hub.com which is a serious issue for your new site. It looks like you are trying to fix canonicalization issues (having more than 1 URL for a single page like www and non-www) using redirects, but you have implemented the WRONG type of redirect. A 302 does not fix the problem... Only a 301 will give the canonical URL for all of the inbound links to the non-canonical URLs.