For single page redirects, a 301 can be used for single pages. A good explanation is at the link below:
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-to-setup-a-301-redirect/

We recently changed our domain and used a 301 redirect from our old domain. I haven’t as yet noticed any drop in rankings… the only downside being that to get the 301 to work (with 123-reg anyway) we had to have some web hosting rather than domain name hosting alone.

What I thought was cool was that google “spanked” sites by sending a warning shot over the bow. The warning shot was an dramatic drop in the PageRank in terms of the otherwise useless green bar on the site. They didn’t actually move the real pagerank down, just the otherwise-useless visible one.

I read through the net about people complaining that after creating Google site maps, their traffic and PR went down.

After removing the site maps, their traffic and PR came back.

Is this a coincidence or there is some problem with the site maps indexing?

What is the philosophy behind indexing a site map by google? Is there any difference than a normal page?

regards

I’m considering moving my site to a new domain since a new domain name may be better suited for the content but I’d also like to use (or sell) the old domain since it would still be useful, just with more specialized content. Is there a way to let the search engines know that the new site is the old site and the old domain is going to be something new? The old site has 2000+ pages and 1500+ backlinks. Since the new site won’t have any backlinks, will the Google Page Rank and traffic be dramatically reduced? What if the old site links to the new site? Is there any way to set up links to help with all that.

Thanks!

-Ramjet

I have links on Yahoo, but they are not shown… just because those Yahoo pages have PR0 and not included in Google main index (check such ‘linking’ pages with site: query)

And maybe mention that “the other” meta tags are of 2 kinds:
1) Those totally ignored by Google - they may be used by some odd user agent for something or other.
2) Those that can affect how robots or browsers generally receive the page content. I’m referring to all those cache control meta tags that seem to cause a lot of confusion. I have no solid knowledge of those and I have found quite a bit of conflicting information on that, so I’d be interested in what you can say about them.

-TheYoungGuy-
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Much appreciated.

Paul

Thanks for your response.

QUOTE: “If you have ‘value’ in the old domain and in the old pages (if old pages are still indexed), then I would suggest to set up hosting for the domain just to be able to set up the optimal redirect.”

Does this optimal redirect involve placing an .htaccess file on the root level of the hosting (Apache) server, which would then 301-redirect all attempts to access the old domain to redirect to the new one? In effect, this hosting could be empty except for the .htaccess file.

Then when all new pages have been indexed by the engines, the hosting can be canceled.

Am I on the right track here?

Thanks again,
Paul

If the domain name is older and has transfered most of the value to the new domain name, and you just need to make sure that the type-in traffic (people entering the old domain name in their browser) is redirected, then a redirect like GoDaddy offers would by fine.

Thanks for the response.

This is just hypothetical; I just want to understand this technique fully.

If you own the old domain, let’s say it’s hosted in GoDaddy, how do you apply a 301 redirect on that domain name?

I know that to redirect old pages to new ones on the same domain requires an .htaccess file (on Apache anyway, not sure on IIS) but I have yet to locate the answer to the above question.

Thanks again,
Paul

Did you cancel the web hosting, but still own the registration for the old domain?

Question: exactly where do you put the 301 redirect if you have canceled the web hosting for the old domain?

Thanks!

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