Quick Tip For People Doing 301 Redirects

by nik0 Banned
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I was wondering why a direct redirect didn't result in any ranking boost, yeah something happened but that was like ranking at page 20 and gone again, real bad.

Then I decided to check if the inner pages redirected properly, which was the case as I use the same .htaccess files so that can't go wrong.

Then I clicked on one of the links to any random inner page and guess what? 404 Error page.

Turns out that moving a site from one domain to the other can mess up things, by setting your permalink structure to default and then back to post name again fixes it, now the sites can finally get indexed and perhaps rank again lol.
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    Yup, it does. Thanks for the heads up!
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

    I was wondering why a direct redirect didn't result in any ranking boost, yeah something happened but that was like ranking at page 20 and gone again, real bad.

    Then I decided to check if the inner pages redirected properly, which was the case as I use the same .htaccess files so that can't go wrong.

    Then I clicked on one of the links to any random inner page and guess what? 404 Error page.

    Turns out that moving a site from one domain to the other can mess up things, by setting your permalink structure to default and then back to post name again fixes it, now the sites can finally get indexed and perhaps rank again lol.
    Sounds like what happened was the new sites .htaccess file had the wrong rules (or they were missing), by saving the WordPress permalinks settings page new rules were added to the .htaccess file fixing the problem.

    Moral of the story, always check a selection of different types of content after moving domains to make sure everything still works as expected :-)

    I've made that mistake as well assuming everything was setup correctly, which is why I know the cause.

    David
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