Question - How to Move a Page without Google Losing It?

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:16 am

I have a Page that does pretty good on Google.....
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I want to move that page to
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How do I do this without Google losing the page?

I know I could edirect it using htaccess....but doesn't google really frown on that?

Dawg

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Not sure Google frowns on redirects, but why do you wish to move it?

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:24 am

I am working on Tieing the URL to the Keyword. My Keyword is "Best Made Widgets" so I want the url to have the keyword broken down by "_" in the url.
/modules/Best_Made_Widgets/index.php .

I have a whole series of these that I am competing on google for the top spots with. I ran most of them up to #1-#5 but here latley I have been losing ground to others. I want #1!

Dawg

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:52 am

Well you can use mod_rewrite to have each page reference the same thing. Don't know how Google will like it or not

Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 7:34 pm

Well.....Here is what I found out. Google does not mind Miod_rewrite or HTaccess redirects. You can also just deop this into the old file location..This is for 301 Moved Permanently. Here is how to do it....

Drop this into the index of the existing file you wish to redirect.

Code:




<?


Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); 


Header( "Location: http://mysite.com/modules.php?name=new_location" ); 


?>

Then check your redirect here....to see if it works right.....if it gives you a 301 code you are good to go.
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OK...On to the NEXT solution....

Dawg