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By: 301 permanent redirect with Tomcat HOWTO « Whale Shark Software

301 permanent redirect with Tomcat HOWTO « Whale Shark Software — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:30:54 +0000

[...] would redirect permanently to http://www.certificatebuddy.com. This is basic SEO – check out this link for a quick explanation. I know that this is trivial to do in Apache, but for the sake of [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:46:15 +0000

IIS? I don’t know how to accomplish it off the top of my head. But my friend Google does!

http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-IIS.asp

By: Clay

Clay — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 04:28:22 +0000

My understanding is that the HTaccess redirect option doesn’t work for a Microsoft server site. Is that correct?

Any suggestions for succh a site (which mine is) ?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:59:06 +0000

Mine went down to 4. Ahh well, c’est la vie.

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:06:02 +0000

Patrick.

My homepage has finally gone back up to PR5. I don’t know if that is related to this change or not. But if it is – thanks!

By: Patrick McKenzie

Patrick McKenzie — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:03:35 +0000

The term is explained in greater detail near the start of this article:

http://microisvjournal.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/developing-linkbait-for-a-non-technical-audience/

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:19:49 +0000

Hey Patrick -

I’m doing a bit of “SEO on a shoestring” for a friend of mine. This is a good tip. I’m doing this in two steps, the first is adding the meta tags and tightening up the title and stuff. The second part is the links. We’ll add the 301 redirect to the first phase.

When you said “it is an impressive piece of linkbait”, what did you mean by linkbait?

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:15:37 +0000

Hi Patrick,

I spotted a minor error in your redirect directive. Should be:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^putyourdomainnamehere\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.putyourdomainnamehere.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Note that the “.” in the condition should be escaped, since it is part of a regular expression.

I actually use a slightly different formulation that looks like this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.putyourdomainnamehere\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.putyourdomainnamehere.com/$1 [R=301,L]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:39:48 +0000

Some nice tips listed here.

Thanks

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:21:14 +0000

Thanks for the tip, I’ve also added the 301 for perfecttableplan.com. It will be interesting to see what happens. Perhaps it will push my PR back to 5 (it slipped back to 4 some time ago, for reasons unknown).

I already had the preferred domain set in Google webmaster tools.