301 SEO Friendly, but how friendly?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by rexjoec, Jan 20, 2011.

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    I've heard 301 redirects are SEO Friendly, but what about mass 301 redirects on a website for thousands of pages? Are there any SEO disadvantages of doing a significant amount of 301 redirects?

    The site currently has a PR 6 and thousands of back links.
     
    rexjoec, Jan 20, 2011 IP
  2. tornado!

    tornado! Active Member

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    If you are redirecting from old domain to new, use webmaster tools to preserve pagerank. Otherwise if you redirect thousands of pages to a single homepage on a new site it may cause some harm in the short term.
     
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    webcosmo Notable Member

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    301 is designed for it, i dont think there is any disadvantages.
    however when you change your entire to work with a new domain you can expect to see some drop in SERP for a while.
     
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    rexjoec Greenhorn

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    Do you recommend not doing 301 and keep the URLs the same, so that there is no drop in SERP?
     
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    Do the 301 redirects... That's what it's for...

    Google even tells you to do it...
     
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