If you have a website, the last thing you want is a 404 error page when a page link cannot be found. Not only is it bad for your Google search rankings, but it is ...

If you're moving or renaming your page URLs or the directories those pages reside in, you'll need to do 301 redirects. 301 redirects are like a "change of address" card for the search engines -- they ...

When evaluating your website and its page ranking, you should always ask whether 301 redirects are impacting it. A redirect is a way to send visitors to a different page from the one they originally ...

A young ambitious man coming from a small town came to Mumbai to live up his job. He rented a place at decent location at Andheri Lokhandwala. However due to cash crunch at the end of the month he ...

Have you been trying to create a redirect for your WordPress site? Perhaps you aren’t sure what a redirect is or maybe you don’t understand why you should learn how to set one up. Either way, ...

I'm a PHP guy so I'm spoiled with the ease of creating a .htaccess file and throwing up RewriteRules to clean up, say, bad URLs in Google's index and 301 them to new, clean URLs. What I have is a site ...

Google's John Mueller has said many times that 302s vs 301s are pretty much the same thing in terms of how Google treats redirects. He often said not to worry about using a 302 over a 301 or the other ...

Throughout past week I came across several people having trouble with .htaccess files. Really, that tech stuff is sometimes frustrating. We have also discussed the 301 redirect and .htaccess file on ...

Just under three years ago, we reported that 301 redirects don’t pass full PageRank and that you should try to link through a normal link versus using 301 redirects. The truth is, a 301 redirect and a ...

Gary Illyes, a Google webmaster trends analyst, said yesterday that using a 301, 302 or 30x redirect of any kind will not result in a loss of PageRank, that there is no PageRank dilution. Here is the ...