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Redirect SEO

by Danny Cutts
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Hello Warriors,

Heres a question for you that I think I know the answer for but not sure

I am going to redirect a domain to one of my forums as the site is not doing much and just distracting the user from the task in hand.

I normally use a php redirect and well I want to know if there is a way I can SEO the redirect page?

Any ideas?

Cheers

Danny
#redirect #seo
  • Profile picture of the author JamesM
    Not sure what you mean? If the redirect is going to be sending a 301 header, as it should for SEO purposes, there's no point in doing anything else on that page as any crawler will attribute the content of the destination page to the redirected URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author webcosmo
    I am sure you not gonna have the old site pages on the forum. So just do a plain 301 redirect to the forum.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff S
    Originally Posted by Danny Cutts View Post

    Hello Warriors,

    Heres a question for you that I think I know the answer for but not sure

    I am going to redirect a domain to one of my forums as the site is not doing much and just distracting the user from the task in hand.

    I normally use a php redirect and well I want to know if there is a way I can SEO the redirect page?

    Any ideas?

    Cheers

    Danny
    You won't want to do a PHP redirect in this case (it's normally done with a Header). If you're doing a permanent redirect to your forum, then you want to use a 301 redirect (done with your .htaccess). The format would be:

    redirect 301 / http://www.yourforum.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Danny Cutts
    ah I see,

    I think I can do 301's from te cpanel... I will check that out

    Cheers

    Danny
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