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omoutop
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Posted: 03/15/2005 07:53 am
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Hello,

Could you tell me if the following code for .htaccess is correct in order to do a search engine friendly internal redirection without loosing the PR and the backlinks?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^page1.htm page2.htm [L]


Thank you very much!



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Posted: 03/15/2005 08:03 am
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You need to use a 301 Permanent Redirect, not a rewrite or a 302 redirect. To redirect "page2.html" to "page2.html" using a 301-Moved permanently redirect, use one of these:

RedirectPermanent /page1.html www.url.com/page2.html



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Posted: 03/15/2005 11:27 am
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Make sure you also redirect all non-www URLs over to the www version using ModRewrite to stop any other duplicate content issues too.



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Posted: 03/15/2005 12:32 pm
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Or this:
RewriteRule ^page1.htm page2.htm [R=301,L]

Keep in mind that the L tells apache to stop all directive processing, so no rule will execute after that one if that one applies. That gets confusing at times.



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Posted: 03/16/2005 01:35 am
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Thank you all!

So, the right code for my internal redirection should be... :

RewriteEngine on
RedirectPermanent /page1.html www.url.com/page2.html
RewriteRule ^page1.htm page2.htm [R=301,L]

... and this for every redirection I want to do...

Sorry to insist but it is a really critical procedure.


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