Comments on: How 301 Redirects Can Improve/Keep Your SEO Rankings

By: static website design

static website design — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:44:00 +0000

Having a different url is gonna divide everything of your website like traffic, link juice, Page Rank and also it is considered as a duplicate website from Google that’s not good from any perspective.

By: gudka

gudka — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 10:41:00 +0000

But i have seen at many places that webmasters are using non www redirects. you are right technically that having different urls of a website can make it as a duplicate content site and it would also divide the link juice of your homepage to another url of the homepage. so when first time i have heard about it i had changed but when i observed that my homepage Page Rank is dividing due to it i again changed it in a single homepage url as www.

By: Louie

Louie — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:58:29 +0000

Great article!

Just a Q — you recommended taking down the old site after traffic to it has subsided, but won’t these leave a lot of referral links from other site dead? Is it reasonable to keep redirects forever?

By: jeff

jeff — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:26:08 +0000

Hi, i started creating vanity urls “http://example.com/august” and have now 301 redirected to more detailed search friendly “http://example.com/unique-free-august-nyc-events”. I have many links linking to the old “/august” url, let’s say 100 links. Does this affect inbound link count to the new url? Will google still give me credit for these 100 links for the new url?? Thanks for your help!

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:02:35 +0000

You recommend redirecting to www. I suppose this is difference in taste. Why not just throw in some other random characters infront of the domain name you also have to type in, theworldwideweb.example.com. (I am being sarcastic).

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:34:19 +0000

Hi Amber

Excellent article thank you but I’m still not quite clear on one point (not being too technically savvy).

The company I work for is Australian based and we started with a .com.au address but a few years later bought the .com as well.

At the moment they are pretty much mirror sites (alias I think) with the old .com.au seemingly getting all the kudos with rankings (checking on Alexa) and back links even though many of the back links coming from .com links in reviews and posts and I really want .com to be the hero.

The trouble is that both rank very highly on organic searches for our key word set and I’m really worried doing a 301 redirect will adversely affect rankings. Also someone also mentioned that if we did a 301 redirect to the .com address then it could have quite a negative affect on organic searches made within Australia.

Would I be best just to leave alone or do you think it will all come out in the wash??

Many thanks
Tim

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:11 +0000

@espirates, great question! If your domain was originally indexed by the search engines, then yes, it should remain indexed for a while. Then you’re new domain that you have 301 redirected will be indexed. Now the only thing with that is your original could be removed from the index at any time just like any other page of your site. And I think if you have the 301 redirect in place eventually your main domain will be removed from the index, especially if you’re using canonical tags pointing to your new domain. Any one else have thoughts on this?

By: espirates

espirates — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:56:55 +0000

Do 301 redirects still get indexed in the search engine, in other words does your own domain url remain indexed forever even though it redirects to new domain ?

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:42:42 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for easy explaning why to 301 redirect and how to do it great article.

Pete

By: marek

marek — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:57:31 +0000

Thank you for this articles dude.
is very useful specialy about multiple home page content.
Regards
Dj