301 redirect is the best method to preserve your current search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a web site. The code “301” is interpreted as “moved permanently”.<\/p>\n
After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new location or file name. You implement the 301 redirect by creating a .htaccess file.<\/p>\n
When a visitor\/spider requests a web page, your web server checks for a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file contains specific instructions for certain requests, including
\nsecurity, redirection issues and how to handle certain errors.<\/p>\n
1. To create a .htaccess file, open notepad, name and save the file as .htaccess (there is no extension).<\/p>\n
2. If you already have a .htaccess file on your server, download it to your desktop for editing.<\/p>\n
3. Place this code in your .htaccess file:
\nredirect 301 \/old\/old.htm https:\/\/www.you.com\/new.htm<\/p>\n
4. If the .htaccess file already has lines of code in it, skip a line, then add the above code.<\/p>\n
5. Save the .htaccess file<\/p>\n
6. Upload this file to the root folder of your server.<\/p>\n
7. Test it by typing in the old address to the page you’ve changed. You should be immediately taken to the new location.<\/p>\n
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^seobook.com [NC] The ‘(*.)$’ says that we’ll take anything that comes after https:\/\/seobook.com and append it to the end of ‘https:\/\/www.seobook.com’ (thats the ‘$1’ part) and redirect to that URL. For more grit on how this works checkout a good regular expressions resource or two.<\/p>\n Note: You only have to enter ‘RewriteEngine On’ once at the top of your .htaccess file.<\/p>\n Alternately you may chose to do this 301 redirect from Note that often webhost managers like CPanel would have placed a ‘ServerAlias’ seobook.com in the first VirtualHost entry which would negate the following VirtualHost so be sure to remove the non-www ServerAlias. Finally the www 301 redirect to non-www version would look like:<\/p>\n Lets say you no longer carry ‘Super Hot Product’ and hence want to redirect all requests to the folder \/superhotproduct to a single page called \/new-hot-stuff.php. This redirect can be accomplished easily by adding the following your .htaccess page:<\/p>\n But what if you want to do the same as the above example EXCEPT for one file? In the next example all files from \/superhotproduct\/ folder will redirect to the \/new-hot-stuff.php file EXCEPT \/superhotproduct\/tony.html which will redirect to \/imakemoney.html<\/p>\n It’s common that one will need to redirect dynamic URL’s with parameters to single In the above example, a request to a dynamic URL such as https:\/\/www.seobook.com\/article.jsp?id=8932 This one is more difficult but I have experienced serious canonicalization problems 1. Create the following PHP file and include it at the top of each page:<\/p>\n if (isset($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) && strtolower($_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]) == ‘on’) { 2. Cloak your robots.txt file. User-agent: * Otherwise display your normal robots.txt. To do this you’ll need to alter your .htaccess I really wish the search engines would get together and add a new attribute to robots.txt that would allow us to stop them from indexing httpss URLs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 301 redirect is the best method to preserve your current search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a web site. The code “301” is interpreted as “moved permanently”. After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new location or file name. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-seo"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nRewriteEngine On<\/p>\n
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/www.seobook.com\/$1 [L,R=301]
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nin the Apache config file httpsd.conf.<\/p>\n
\n
\nServerName www.seobook.com
\nServerAdmin webmaster@seobook.com
\nDocumentRoot \/home\/seobook\/public_html
\n<\/VirtualHost><\/p>\n
\nServerName seobook.com
\nRedirectMatch permanent ^\/(.*) https:\/\/www.seobook.com\/$1
\n<\/VirtualHost>
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n301 www to non-www<\/p>\n
\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.seobook.com [NC]
\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ https:\/\/seobook.com\/$1 [L,R=301]
\n<\/code>
\nRedirect All Files in a Folder to One File<\/p>\n
\nRewriteRule ^superhotproduct(.*)$ \/new-hot-stuff.php [L,R=301]
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nRewriteRule ^superhotproduct\/tony.html \/imakemoney.html [L,R=301]
\nRewriteRule ^superhotproduct(.*)$ \/new-hot-stuff.php [L,R=301]
\n<\/code>
\nRedirect a Dynamic URL to a New Single File<\/p>\n
\nstatic file:<\/p>\n
\nRewriteRule ^article.jsp?id=(.*)$ \/latestnews.htm [L,R=301]
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nwill be redirected to https:\/\/www.seobook.com\/latestnews.htm
\nSSL httpss to https<\/p>\n
\nwhen the secure httpss version of my site was fully indexed along side my https version. I have yet
\nto find a way to redirect httpss for the bots only so the only solution I have for now is
\nto attempt to tell the bots not to index the httpss version. There are only two ways I know to do this and neither are pretty.<\/p>\n
\necho ‘‘. “\\n”;
\n}<\/p>\n
\nIf a visitor comes from httpss and happens to be one of the known bots such as googlebot, you will display:<\/p>\n
\nDisallow: \/<\/p>\n
\nfile treat .txt files as PHP or some other dynamic language and then proceed to write the cloaking code.<\/p>\n