It's for showing search engines that content has been moved from one place to another and the content change isn't temporary. Read more about it here: http://www.seobook.com/archives/000215.shtml And please either use the search function of the forum or use Google.
Basically tells Google of pages that have been moved or if old pages on your site are still in Google index, but not on the site anymore, you would do a 301 redirect to the new listed page.
In some case we need to change the file name that time we need to notify the search engine that the current page is moved permanently to another page.
It tells the the search engine that there is a new version of this old URL and that where is should go. It helps in unifying link popularity from your different URL versions.
If you have to change file names or move pages around, it's the safest option. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently".
301 redirect always helps to fix your webmaster issues. And if you want to change your link paths and other few seo friendly tactics if you followed, you should take a help of 301 redirect. And user will not disappointed with your 404 pages. Any suggestions please paste here. - Jopson
301 orientation can reduce the value of your site PR loss, to maximize the transition to your new site up
Its a type of redirect. In this the redirection the site is permanently redirected on the other hand 302 is the temporary redirect...
If you create a vanity URL as a 301 redirect and the landing page is appended with campaign parameters will the search engines see the appended campaign paramaters as the new permanent page?
A 301 redirect is a SEO friendly way of permanently redirecting one URL to another. This ensures that Google is aware that the legacy page no longer exists and that 85% of the strength, listings and rankings should be redirected to an alternative page. This is especially useful when a new website is implemented and the URL structures can not be maintained (i.e. .asp site being rebuilt in .php etc.). The site will settle better using a 301 redirect and will also benefit from the strength of the previous pages that you are re-directing. My personal approach it to re-direct each page individually if possibly to the most related new page within the site, maintaining the internal link structure and passing any backlinks over to the new page. Hope this helps
Its like the postal service redirecting your addressed snail mail to your new address. Search engines read 301 as a permanent move where 302 is a temporary move. check out seo.com for more info and ideas
301 Redirect is permanent type of redirect, there are 302 redirect also which is temporary type of redirect. The main use of the 301 redirect is that redirect of a website url to another url as for example suppose we have a HTML based site http://www.abc.html/ but this url is not good for my business and i want to change this http://xyz.php url, in this condition we can use a Permanent (301) Redirect. We will apply a redirection on http://www.abc.html/ after going in .htaccess file, after the redirection whenever people will type the http://www.abc.html/ the the http://www.xyz.php/ site will open . The URL will automatically change on address bar. I m giving the .htaccess code below:- To Move a single page Redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.xyz.com/newpage.html To Move an entire site Redirect 301 / http://www.xyz.com/ Hope it will help you.
Actually 301 redirect is one of the transferring path but it only url. Its just goes another site but you are showing one.