Seo And Rewrite Rule

Hey guys,

I am using the following mod_rewrite rule for shortened SEO friendly links:

RewriteRule ^blog/([^/]*)\.html$ /blog/blog.php?pid=$1 [R=301,L]

For Google SEO reasons, will the shortened rewritten link created from above be the permanent link, from the R=301? Even though the longer link is still functional?

Or, do I need to create a rewritematch 301 rule to push the long url to the shortened url permanently?

Thanks for the help! Much appreciated.

JK

 

Ok..I just realized the rewriterule doesn't work with the [R=301,L] tag. Any idea how to make this 301 to the shortened link.

Original long link sample:

http://www.example.com/blog/blog.php?pid=great-article

 

I tried using this, but then the short url just redirects to the long one:

RedirectMatch 301 /blog/blog.php?pid=(.*)$ http://www.example.com/blog/$1.html

 

Try this (I'm at work, so I haven't tested it):

RewriteRule ^blog/([^/]*)\.html$ /blog/blog.php?pid=$1 [L]

Code (markup):

 

Thanks Ryan. I figured it out this morning. This is what I did if anyone else has the same issue:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /blog/blog\.php\?pid=([a-z0-9]+)\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/blog\.php$ http://www.example.com/blog/%1? [R=301,L]
 
RewriteRule ^blog/([-a-z0-9]+)$ /blog/blog.php?pid=$1 [NC,L] 

Code (markup):

 

A nice tool I found while working on this:

http://www.generateit.net/mod-rewrite/