How does google treat redirects?

Discussion in 'Google Analytics' started by nolag, Apr 13, 2010.

  1. #1
    I know there are many kinds, and I am wondering how google treats them.

    What does google do if it gets a page that:

    is a 301
    is a 302
    has header("Location: ...

    Also my site tiny2.net redirects via header and I am wondering if google will count pages that link to say tiny2.net/api as an inlink to my site or not?

    Thanks for any help in advance
    nolag
     
    nolag, Apr 13, 2010 IP
  2. D79312

    D79312 Peon

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    From my experience all redirects, even on page scripting redirects or times redirects page rank passes completely. Keep in mind that google updates ever month and a half or so. I have even had pages that I redirected the page to another website and I obtained the final websites page rank on its preceding webpage temporarily. dnrenterprises.com was the website that i did this with and it didn't penalize the pr at all.
     
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  3. nolag

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    Would it count inlinks to the original site as well though? I have a site, tiny2.net, that I would like google to notice. The site is a redirect site so I guess what I would like to know is would google credit my site when it makes a header to another site?
     
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    I remember reading recent article that there is some PR loss due to 301 redirects? The link below isn't the original article I read, but it gets the same idea cross.
    (Tried to send a link but realized I don't have sufficient authorization; do a search on "Google Page Rank 301 Loss", that should send you a couple of articles on what I'm referencing).

    I haven't done any personal testing though.
     
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  5. nolag

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    Thanks, I will do that search :). I just hope that it gives me some PR for it :p.
     
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    I would like to get a clear answer on how google handles redirects from one domain to another. Ex: I have a.com and b.com. I want to stop using a.com and redirect to b.com due to name recognition. I have received different advise on how to handle it.
     
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    webmaster tools move locations, then it will know you are moving
     
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