I need your opinions on temporary redirect

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by oseymour, May 23, 2007.

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    One of my websites is currently down. I want to do a temporary redirect (302) to a related section on a partner site.

    I don't think there will be any seo ramifications because it is only for a day or two...anyone know how to do this?

    redirect 302 / www .newsite. com
     
    oseymour, May 23, 2007 IP
  2. BigBadWolf

    BigBadWolf Well-Known Member

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    I have done something similiar, you rankings might drop a bit while at the redirect, but once you sites is back to normal and the redirect removed, as soon as it gets crawled and indexed (the old site) you go back to where you where. A tleast when I did it :)
     
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    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    I'll try it and let you know how it goes...
     
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    Isn't it required that the OLD site (the one that is down and who's indexed pages you want to redirect) need to be UP, so you can redirect those pages with .htaccess rules?

    Just curious, because it makes no sense how it could be possible to redirect indexed or even non indexed pages of a website that is not online.

    You could host your domain (the one that is down) and if you have cPanel (or if you don't have cPanel then simply write your .htaccess for that domain), you could point every single URL to redirect to a specific page of your site. This is the only way i know how that can be done.
     
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