May 14, 201214 yr Hi, I am in the process of designing a website update and have always had someone else deal with the 301-re-directs. My question is, at the moment there only seems to be 3 of the current website pages indexing on Google, what method would I use to be 100% sure no further pages are indexed? Also is there a fail safe process for creating 301 re-directs or should I create a list using htaccess for all current pages and any page re-name directions? As I say I am a complete novice so your help would be much appreciated, in layman's terms as I have never touched an htaccess file. Many thanks
May 14, 201214 yr I wrote a blog about this very topic this morning! http://www.trand.co.uk/amazingly-simple-301-redirect/ They can seem daunting and look very complex but are quite simple when you break them down. To fully understand the various syntax takes a while, but these days you can simply copy and past and replace the domains. Indexing can take a while. If you 301 redirect an old site to a new site then you have to be patient. Google won't suddenly swap the indexes over EDIT: If that doesn't help then let me know
May 14, 201214 yr Author I wrote a blog about this very topic this morning! http://www.trand.co.uk/amazingly-simple-301-redirect/ They can seem daunting and look very complex but are quite simple when you break them down. To fully understand the various syntax takes a while, but these days you can simply copy and past and replace the domains. Indexing can take a while. If you 301 redirect an old site to a new site then you have to be patient. Google won't suddenly swap the indexes over EDIT: If that doesn't help then let me know Hi, thanks for that! I haven't had a chance to look things over properly as yet but I wondered if all of the URL's remained the same and additional were added is there any need to 301 re-direct or is it just the same as updating a current page? If I don't have any page name changes etc will it just be a case of adding all pages to Webmaster Tools and Google will eventually index the new? Cheers
May 14, 201214 yr If the url structure is being kept them same, then no need at all. If you have a page that is http://www.example.co.uk/about-us.html'>http://www.example.co.uk/about-us.html and you upload a new page that will be http://www.example.co.uk/about-our-company.html then you'll need to 301 redirect the old to the new. But if you're uploading a file called http://www.example.co.uk/about-us.html then no need to 301 redirect
May 14, 201214 yr Author If the url structure is being kept them same, then no need at all. If you have a page that is http://www.example.co.uk/about-us.html'>http://www.example.co.uk/about-us.html and you upload a new page that will be http://www.example.co.uk/about-our-company.html then you'll need to 301 redirect the old to the new. But if you're uploading a file called http://www.example.co.uk/about-us.html then no need to 301 redirect Thanks Jason, just what I thought...now to heck it out! Cheers
Create an account or sign in to comment