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Wordpress Redirect Help

by HaydenR
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I have a wordpress website ranking #1 on Google for a "dentist my city" keyword and I'm planning to rent out the spot.

I heard the best way to do this is with a 301 redirect. But thing is, I tested it and it seems if you do that you lose all on page SEO as the new site becomes the client's site which is not optimized for the keywords. I have an EMD.com that's why it ranks so easy, and I'm afraid if I do a 301 redirect it will drop in rankings because I lose the on site SEO.

Is this the case? Sorry for the noobness, just trying to find the best way to do things.

If so, then how would you go about doing it? Is there a way to save all the on site and off site SEO while redirecting the visitors to my client's site?

Would a meta refresh be better? And how do you do that in Wordpress?

Would appreciate any help on this. Thanks.
#redirect #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    Seemingly your idea of "renting out" and my idea of renting out are quite different...

    You are renting a redirect - no the site. Big difference. Does the client know this?

    Also, I understand all the rage about going after the 'offline gold' and I wish you good luck. However, if you don't have the proper knowledge to offer a really useful service instead of just ripping of people who know even less than you - at least have the decency and hire/outsource a webmaster who has the technical knowledge for this.

    just my $0.02
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  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    I'm going to echo Istvan here - does the client understand that the next time Google evaluates the URL, it probably won't be #1 any more? You're shooting yourself and your client in the foot.

    Better you should try to sell advertising space on the page rather than changing the actual content.

    BTW, your 'website' isn't ranked #1 - it's a specific URL that's ranked #1 for that keyword phrase. SEs don't rank websites as a whole, they rank pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author herry
    I survived the upgrade to WordPress 2.0 without much trouble. Now I want to change my permalinks structure in order to be able to update old posts and make them fresh without changing their permalinks.
    I'm considering changing my permalinks structure from /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ to /%post_id%/%postname%/ or /%postname%/%post_id%/. I tested /%post_id%/%postname%/ for a few minutes on my site, and it seemed to work well.
    I thought you might be able to help me with some htaccess rules for redirecting my WordPress post links after I change my permalinks from /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ to /%post_id$/%postname%/. I would like to keep links on other sites to my content working by 301 redirecting links to my old date and postname urls to the new post_id postname ones. Is this possible? I tried searching the forums here for a solution, but I didn't find one for my situation.
    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
      Originally Posted by herry View Post

      I tried searching the forums here for a solution, but I didn't find one for my situation.
      Thanks.
      Did you try the WordPress Support forum? They are the special forum for your questions.

      (I hope you upgraded to 3.x and not 2.x...)
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  • Profile picture of the author Evan-M
    Originally Posted by HaydenR View Post

    I have a wordpress website ranking #1 on Google for a "dentist my city" keyword and I'm planning to rent out the spot.

    I heard the best way to do this is with a 301 redirect. But thing is, I tested it and it seems if you do that you lose all on page SEO as the new site becomes the client's site which is not optimized for the keywords. I have an EMD.com that's why it ranks so easy, and I'm afraid if I do a 301 redirect it will drop in rankings because I lose the on site SEO.

    Is this the case? Sorry for the noobness, just trying to find the best way to do things.

    If so, then how would you go about doing it? Is there a way to save all the on site and off site SEO while redirecting the visitors to my client's site?

    Would a meta refresh be better? And how do you do that in Wordpress?

    Would appreciate any help on this. Thanks.

    you would think you would have thought of all this before you took the time to seo the site ;P

    either way, what you want won't work. the page will lose the rank the first time the bot comes back and sees a new page.

    you could add content to the page that points to the clients site, and "rent the ads" on the page that get the visitor from the ad page to the client page, but what you are trying to do won't work.

    there are black hat ways of doing it, but if you do them, eventually you, and more than likely your client will be thrown from the listings as fast as I can type this.

    suggestion... get a webmaster that knows how this stuff works before you spend any more time seoing pages ( just food for thought)
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