Hi Folks
I wonder whether I can pick your collective brains with a query about Google please?
I’ve changed URLs and I would like to have Google completely ignore my old address
The complication is it’s only the domain name that’s changed.
The Site itself is still on the same host and the files are now in a sub-directory of the address above – which the new domain points to.
Therefore I wouldn’t want Google to stop cataloging the sub-directories, just the main index
I’ve revised the Source code on the page to read as follows and Google has now stopped linking to cached versions of the old Index.
However this effectively blank page is still high in its listings?
Is there some code I can add to ensure Google completely ignores my old Index Page without affecting any sub-folders
Cheers
Andrew
Busy posted this at 23:27 — 3rd July 2005.
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The robots rule will only take effect the next time your site is crawled, even then could be a week or three for the change to take effect
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dvduval posted this at 03:19 — 4th July 2005.
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What a about a 302 redirect?
Andrew_Samuel posted this at 09:35 — 4th July 2005.
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The change took place over a month ago so Google should picked up the changes by now.
I think re-direct pages look tacky and I'd favour just droping the old address completely - especially as my new address is already being picked up.
chrishirst posted this at 12:45 — 4th July 2005.
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use a 301 server side redirect that way the backlink credit gets passed on. That's probably why the old page(s) are high in the listing and done properly no one ever sees a redirect.
Chris
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Andrew_Samuel posted this at 21:31 — 4th July 2005.
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Chris
How do I setup a "301 server side redirect" and can you please clarify what you mean when you say "when done properly no one ever sees a redirect".
Thanks
chrishirst posted this at 06:28 — 5th July 2005.
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For your site I don't know offhand.
It's running on Apache on Unix so you may or may not have .htaccess available. HR thread on 301 redirects
If a redirect is set up server side, it's done and dusted before anything is sent to the user agent so appears seamless to browsers, the only thing visible would be a different URI in the address bar.
Yahoo btw are now treating a 0 sec meta refresh as a 301 and anything more as a 302. No information how MSN and Google treat them as yet.
Chris
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Andrew_Samuel posted this at 21:49 — 9th July 2005.
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I created an .htaccess file with the following contents
redirect 301 /index.htm (url)
in the root directory of my site.
Trouble is the url I am redirecting to is contained within a subdirectory of my site.
When I go to the original url it is unable to reach the redirect page and the browser hangs. Am I right that the .htaccess file also applies to subdirectories off the root - if so am I getting an endless loop of redirects back to the index?
Your input gratefully received
Thanks
Andrew_Samuel posted this at 21:16 — 12th July 2005.
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Anyone please?
Andrew_Samuel posted this at 20:56 — 14th July 2005.
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chrishirst posted this at 08:16 — 15th July 2005.
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You are going to have problems using .htaccess to redirect from an alias to another alias using the same HD space. Because the .htaccess is in the root folder it will apply site wide and across the aliases.
You may have more success by using absolute references in the redirects rather than relatives.
Chris
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Andrew_Samuel posted this at 21:28 — 16th July 2005.
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Thanks Chris I feared as much
I've resorted back to a simple JS redirect on my old Index until I research something better.
Cheers
Andrew_Samuel posted this at 23:14 — 19th July 2005.
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