301 causing 404's - problem?

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horsetags posted this at 08:24 — 17th August 2006.

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Hi,

I have made a new site with totally new directories and pages for the
same product range and I have set up 301 redirect in the .htaccess file
of the original, and it works fine except that any specific page other than the root address that
is sent to my new site from the search engines gets a 404 response
because the new pages are a different address completely. It doesn't
just redirect the page to the home page.

Is this ok for the duration of the changeover? Does it make any
difference to ranking? Do the SE's 'mark you down' in any way because
of it?

Code i use -

redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/

As i have over 12,000 links in google, it's not a case of 301'ing each link Sad

Thanks for any help

Paul

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stuey posted this at 08:48 — 30th August 2006.

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Joined: Mar 2006

horsetags wrote: Hi,

I have made a new site with totally new directories and pages for the
same product range and I have set up 301 redirect in the .htaccess file
of the original, and it works fine except that any specific page other than the root address that
is sent to my new site from the search engines gets a 404 response
because the new pages are a different address completely. It doesn't
just redirect the page to the home page.

Is this ok for the duration of the changeover? Does it make any
difference to ranking? Do the SE's 'mark you down' in any way because
of it?

Code i use -

redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/

As i have over 12,000 links in google, it's not a case of 301'ing each link

Thanks for any help

Paul

Hi Horsetags,

Can you give me some examples of your pages. It is absolutely critical that you get this right, or you could be jepordizing your website.

Regards

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horsetags posted this at 08:58 — 30th August 2006.

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Joined: May 2006

Hi Stueys,

Thanks for the reply, but since then, i have decided to move my site back into the old space and so that the new site is back in the ip address and domain name it had before, just the content is changed, so they are 302's now!

As i was not that technically minded, i wasn't capable of developing a new php site in the old space and in ignorance didn't realise the full horror of changing sites, even if it was the some company!!

Customers are still slow coming back, so i still have a lot to do, but i have redirectMatch'ed most of the links that come to the top of the serps to their new pages, so hope all is well in time.

Thanks anyway

Paul

photoshop250 posted this at 05:06 — 2nd September 2006.

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Joined: Aug 2006

Always make sure you know what you are doing when it comes to things like redirects, robots.txt, ect as one mess up could drop your site out of the rankings for months.

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