[Typo3] 301 Moved Permanently

Marcel Douwstra marcel.douwstra at tros.nl
Fri Sep 30 15:13:56 CEST 2005


I believe google doesn't really appreciate redirects either.. allthough 
it can be very convenient for previous users and their bookmarks I don't 
think it will leave your google rankings intact.

Cheers,

Marcel Douwstra
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Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> Pierre Rossel schrieb am 30.09.2005 14:47:
> 
> 
>>When publishing a new site version made with Typo3, we have the option to 
>>remove the old files from the web server... or not.
>>
>>If removed, search engines like Google will get a 404 error and remove the 
>>page from the index. Or with Typo3, it will get the home page by default. 
>>I'm not sure of the consequences, but Google really don't like many urls 
>>that have the same content as it is considered as search engine spam.
>>
>>If old pages are left in place, they will not be removed from search engines 
>>and visitors may miss the new content.
> 
> 
> I would remove the original pages, noting the paths and figuring out the
> new URLs of the TYPO3 generated pages. And if you are using Apache, you
> could then just add to your .htaccess file:
> 
> ...
> RedirectPermanent /old-page.html http://<domain>/new-typo3-page.html
> ...
> 
> Add this right after the RewriteEngine On and before any other
> RewriteRule. This way these requests won't ever come to TYPO3: Apache
> will instruct the browser or search-engine that this document has a new
> URL (the browser will then be redirected to the new page).
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ernesto



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