has any one used a 301 redirect, I'm told by using a 301 redirect I wont' lose my rankings in Google, yahoo, or any other search engines that it will pass all my page rank, all my old links, and anchor text to the new domain? Any one ever done this?
I use them, but I cannot say for sure how all search engines handle them, I don't think anyone can. It is said that a 301 is the best and preferred way to redirect bots to a moved page, domain, etc.
actually a 301 redirect transfers the page rank, but i have never tried it, looks like i will try it in a few weeks time, as am shifting one of my static sites to a dynamic php sort of site! let's hope it really works,
all sites which are using mod_rewrite is making 301 redirect. i have a web site that i use 301 redirect on this. it's page rank 6 and has a lot of pr5-6 subpages
Actually not all sites that use mod_rewrite are sending 301. You can use mod_rewrite to send a 301, but you can also use it to do an internal redirect, which is invisible to the outside world.