Lets say I do a 301 redirect from www.somesite.com to somesite.anothersite.com Everything works great, then on day I decide to take the 301 redirect down and use www.somesite.com. Will search engines start visiting and indexing www.somesite.com or will they remember that it's been 301 redirected and forget all about www.somesite.com?
If you want to move the content, you could do a reverse 301 back from somesite.anothersite.com to www.somesite.com or if you now want to have 2 separate sites, just put some content on www.somesite.com and get some links pointing to it, and when the SEs find it they will see that it is no longer a 301.
How is a 301 redirect permanent then? Or is that just what it's called and it's not really permanent.
This is not correct. Clients that received 301 response are supposed to begin using the new URL for *all* subsequent requests and may even change bookmarks, if allowed by the user (it's by the book - not referring to any particular browsers). 302, on the other hand is a temporary redirection and the client should request *every* time the original URL. In practice, if you have links to your site, crawlers will keep looking for old links, even if they return 301. This happens, though, not because 301 is not "permanent enough", but because there are still links pointing to the non-existing resource. J.D.
Hi Have a question about 301 redirects. I currently have a 301 redirect from my .dk to my .com site - the thing is I would like to change this and use the .dk as the main site (for branding locally in denmark etc). Is it possible to just change the 301 from going from the .dk to the .com to being the other way around? If so, what is the best way to do this? Any ideas Cheers