Hi, I have used this code in index.html to redirect from my www.site.com to redirect to a folder within my site. example www.site.com -> www.site.com/folder <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=/folder/index.php"> Code (markup): Is this a dangerous kind of redirect? So it can get my site to be banned or un index from search engine? Any kind of solution if it is dangerous? Thanks,
Yeah, I think 301 is the best option, we have done many 301s and never had a problem. Fingers crosssed
Yes 301 is a good option for SEO Friendly redirects, Here is a nice guide >> http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.com/m/articles/search-engine-problems/url-redirect-safe.php
The case is when i use Redirect by using .htaccess so it is also affecting my addon domains. They are automatically redirected to the new link i write in .htaccess. So it does not help me so much. I have tried to find some solution on net, but doesn´t find any good. That works for me. So therefore i think it is easier to use a method using same index.html to redirect.
Or it is better to use a php redirection? Like this: <?php header( 'Location: http://www.site.com/folder/new_page.html' ) ; ?> Code (markup):
With dangerous i mean, can search engine ban the site if i used this code <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=/folder/index.php"> Code (markup):
META Redirect is useful (for HTML) when other file formats are disallowed, i.e. when the server does not support PHP or .HTACCESS
To be honest i still dont know how "dangerous" redirecting is, i redirected a a few domains to my main Pr7 domain a few months ago wich were all pr0 and by the time of the recent update 3 or the 5 were pr5..... And the other 2 pr1 and 3 ...... No one has still explained how this was possible,
When we talk about the danger of redirections it's about the purpose of deceiving users and search engines by displaying a page for search engines to rank and then when a human visitor comes over that page, he is redirected to another page. Having a 301 redirect means telling search engines "hey, you've landed an outdated page, here's the more appropriate one". Tell me what impact did increase in PageRank brought to your site?