Page redirecting

[TinnaDog]

I have 2 sites which have been working at consolidating into one site. I would like to take the index.html page from site 1 and redirect it to index.html on site 2. Does this cause a problem with Google or anything else.

I am forwarding this specific page because I dont want to loose any of the search engine page links on site 1

[John Scott]

PageRank (and rankings) pass transparently through 301 redirects.

[TinnaDog]

So I could remove the index.html on site one place a .htaccess file which redirects the index page as a 404 and I will not have any problem with google or anyone else.

Thats probably a weak way of doing it.

[John Scott]

You don't need to remove the index.html file to do the redirect.

When we changed from www.internet-marketing-research.net to www.v7n.com we left the old files in place, and placed 301 redirects in. The links to www.internet-marketing-research.net will be counted as links to www.v7n.com after Google picks up on it - usually in one update or two.

[TinnaDog]

That will work - Thanks

[Tariel Zivzivadze]

JohnScott
When you did the redirect whow did you specifically do that?
I mean "placed 301 redirects in" ?

[John Scott]

I do them via cpanel.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by Tariel Zivzivadze

JohnScott
When you did the redirect whow did you specifically do that?
I mean "placed 301 redirects in" ?

cpanel does it, but you can also do it manually by creating a .htaccess file. depending on what you are doing with your .htaccess file you may need to CHMOD it to set the permissions too.

http://www.seobook.com/archives/000215.shtml

[RingingPHoneML]

Does this go for redirecting pages too as in the following example:

url: http://www.mysite.com/cig_search?info?categoryid=122

if you wanted it to simply display as: http://www.mysite.com/category-name.html

would you do a 301 redirect for that? would it even make a difference and be worth redirecting to 'clean up' the url

Thanks.

[awall19]

Originally Posted by RingingPHoneML

Does this go for redirecting pages too as in the following example:

url: http://www.mysite.com/cig_search?info?categoryid=122

if you wanted it to simply display as: http://www.mysite.com/category-name.html

would you do a 301 redirect for that? would it even make a difference and be worth redirecting to 'clean up' the url

Thanks.

the best way to clean up URLs is via mod rewrite.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

[Tariel Zivzivadze]

awall19
thx