What is 301 Redirect?

by dominik77

Posted: 10 years ago 8 replies

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It's the technique of redirecting an older webpage to a new location. Normally, to display the webpage or website for the web address which we are trying to visit. Here 301 implies the move is permanent as opposed to the temporary.

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Hermes Urbanus

10 years ago

Hey Dom, I'm running a VPS. But If I was on regular hosting, how would I go about implementing a 301 Redirect? Is this something done through .HTACCESS, CRON, CPanel or something to request from the provider? Are there any video demo's or written tutorials out there on how to do this?
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p4laddi

10 years ago

In your .htaccess file which can be found in the root folder of your site. Simply Add the page you wish to redirect and the url you wish to redirect to

e.g. Redirect 301 /oldpage http://www.mysite.com/newpage

You can also redirect an entire domain

e.g. Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com

This will tell search engines that the page or domain has permanently moved. As well as doing this it is worth going into webmaster tools and adding the redirect info in there also so completeness.

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Originally Posted by Hermes Urbanus

Hey Dom, I'm running a VPS. But If I was on regular hosting, how would I go about implementing a 301 Redirect? Is this something done through .HTACCESS, CRON, CPanel or something to request from the provider? Are there any video demo's or written tutorials out there on how to do this?
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OnlineStoreHelp 10 years ago

If you are using a modern shopping cart, most of them provide the ability to import 301 redirects right to the cart since it is possible your URL's will change if you are changing carts. It is mainly a way of saying to the search engines, hey my page one rank URL, this is the new one. The purpose being not to lose that ranking.
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Etoot 10 years ago

301 Redirecting is permanently moving your old pages to a new location.
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SamOne 10 years ago

What he said ^^
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FeelessLeader 10 years ago

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yoangov 10 years ago

301 is permanent move to a new location (domain/page/etc)
302 redirect is a temporary redirect to a new location (domain/page/etc)
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Etoot 10 years ago

The process of moving an old page to a new location is called redirection. There are basically two types of redirection. One is called 301 and the other is called 302.
301 is used to permanently move an old page to a new location. But
302 is used to temporarily move page to a new location and then bring back that page original location.
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