I have a redirect issues i am fighting. I have two sites and i want to do a 301 from one to the other. Site A: 1998 site, DMOZ, lots of .edu and .gov, just nice domain. Site B: 2002 sites and nothing linking to it really. This is the url i want though for the site.. These are on a IIS microsoft server. I am not a derver guy so my knowledge is limited. Site A and Site B both point to the same location/same folder. My server guy went and made a seperate identity for Site B and then set through the IIS to have it permanently redirect to Site A. So now when i go to Site B in the browser it is redirected to Site A My question is that since this is not coded on a page and done with the server will the Search Engine be notified and recognize it as a traditional 301. If it will not recognize it as a 301 and pass on the good stats from Site B to A, do you know how to make this work as i am intending it to. My server guy does not want to go and make a totally seperate site for Site B just to put a index.asp in it saying 301 to Site A. He doesnt want to do the work for what i am hoping to gain. So i am hoping the way it was done ahead will be enough but if not can you please help me so i can get the result i desire. Thanks a bunch in advance.
yes you can and that is what we have done basically. But the question is when a search engine comes to Site B does it see that it has been forwarded to Site A? Cause in all other ways of doing 301 it is a code on the page that says go to Site A from now on. With a server side redirect there is not any code on the page. So does the Search Engine see the redirect and pass the juice of all the age, links, and directories on to Site A?
I suspect it will be OK. Run it through this to check: http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
Thanks for the link. I checked and what we did worked. It showed me in the response that the 301 was in place to Site A. Thanks for the link. Now i can go home.. haha..