I'm the owner of a domain ajrecruit and from that domain I own 4 extensions.
ajrecruit.be
ajrecruit.com
ajrecruit.eu
ajrecruit.nl
Now my original site is ajrecuit.be and is build in WordPress.
My question now is what is the best practice in order that when people use the .com .nl .eu all get redirected to ajrecruit.be.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking who to redirect a page as I know how to do this. My question is what is the best practice so Google picks up the different extensions as well?
Do I just redirect from all extensions to mu www.ajrecruit.be domain?
What about my sitemap? Do I put the other extensions in my sitemap?
I hope it's a bit clear as I'm having trouble to explain it in English.
I used for this task 301 redirects, it's easy and convenient.
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I installed a wordpress site. The visitors can only see the site without the prefix WWW. If someone types the website name with www, there is a "site not installed page". I am with OVH hosting and they are blaming the wordpress but I am sure that someone without good knowledge answered as the problem was the same even before the wp installation took place. If I change wp url location in the backend to www.mysite.com there is a backend lockout till I edit the database directly with the url without www.
My questions:
1> How to make my website accessible with both versions of the url (www+no www)? I want the www to appear in the address bar.
2> I do not want SEO rank loss due to duplicate content.
Please help as the customer care sucks and for 2 weeks they cant solve this problem. I am sure someone out here can please provide a few steps which I can follow and implement what I want. Thanks a lot in advance.
You may want to check with your hosting provider. I think technically, they are different URLs. Your host should be able to link both I would imagine.
I would like to migrate a site, but the new URL's are completely different from the old URL's. I do not want to break my old sites links that are out there on the web. Is there a way to extract all the links from a site so I can generate a redirect table (I will probably put the redirects on the web server level)? The old is on ASP.NET with SQL server 2008 by the way. Am open to crawling the site or mining the SQL database, but need some help or advice.
You could use IIS Seo Optimalization Toolkit for that. http://www.iis.net/download/seotoolkit
With that tool you can spider the entire website. Then when the report finishes, go to Content -> Host summary and double click the host of the website. There you have a complete list of all spedered URL's.
And ofcourse, when you have these url's, you can make URL rewrite of routing mechanisms available to 301 to the right content on the new website.
The best way is to actually put a 301 redirect to notify all engines that your URL's have permanently moved Search for 301 in this http response code documentation for more info on 301. That is if I am understanding your problem (that you want links from other sites and searches and whatnot to realize that your site moved?).
It doesn't sound like you're running Apache. However, Apache has an available module called mod_rewrite. There may be a similar module for other web servers.
mod_rewrite allows you to do exactly what you are describing.
Perhaps with litle js magic if works for you
i've a small website(with few of pages-- max 20) on asp running on windows server since last 3 years with a lot of traffic and all the pages are indexed and ranked high by google and other search engines, but now i decided to convert my existing asp website to wordpress on that same domain and host.i'll request the godaddy to change my hosting server from windows to linux, and that i'll install wordpress there and i'll recreate all 20 pages there, but the matter is that i'll lose my all traffic.is there anyway to redirect those asp indexed links to my new wordpress posts?
any kind of help will be appreciated-- Thanks in advance :)
You can use 301 redirect to redirect all your old asp urls to the new wordpress urls using htaccess.
http://ndesign-studio.com/blog/301-htaccess-redirect
You have only 20 pages so it would be easy for you to do it manually i think. Thanks
I found the following plugins to easily manage 301 redirects. Please use any of the one given below.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/screenshots/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/screenshots/
You just need to put the old asp url without the domain name and the new wordpess url with domain name. Thanks
Keeping the existing SE rankings must be the top priority and for that you have no other option but use 301 redirect.
It's good to know how 301 redirect works; so this article may be useful;
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/WordPress-301-Redirect-Tips-and-Techniques/
Since you will be porting your site into wordpress, it makes a lot of sense to use a known plug in for this particular task.
As always, download a known/rated/trustworthy/uptodate plug in.
Here is one that fits the bill, for you.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/
HTH
Got an urgent issue, and I'm totally stumped.
We recently migrated a bunch of networked blogs, and realized one of them was using a subfolder structure, whereas all the new system is all subdomains. The wordpress multisite system doesn't allow for both subdomains and subfolder structures, so I'm guessing the logical solution would be to use htaccess to redirect requests for the old urls to the new url. But how do I write the code in the htaccess?
I need to make all requests to http://www.mysite.com/720/etcetc
to http://blog.mysite.com/etcetc
Is this possible or is there another more viable solution?
Your assistance would be greatly greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
My recommendation would be to install the Redirection plug-in on whatever site you have running at http://www.mysite.com/ and have it dynamically redirect all requests to /720/etcetc/* to the new address. Redirection can add the appropriate HTTP 301 headers and, since it's doing things dynamically, you won't need to hunt down each and every URL to write your .htaccess file.
I currently have a small-midsize website with .htm extensions. I have redesigned the full website, this time using a .aspx extension. I want to issue 301 redirects to keep my search engine rankings, but am unsure of how to do so from an .html page in a spider friendly way. With research I have repeatedly encountered references to ISAPI redirects (but no where can I seem to find a full explanation, just a link to isapiredirect.com, which does not load). Other than this I have been advised to run all .htm pages through the asp.net engine and issue a redirect through asp code. I have no idea how to get that done.
I am unfamiliar with asp.NET (the new site was not designed by me), and only with LAMP, which seems far more simply managed with .htaccess.
Thank you so much for any help, time, considerations or suggestions
You can use a .htaccess file if you get a license to the Helicon's ISAPI Rewrite module. It might be a familiar environment for you. But you are right, the home page doesn't load.
http://www.seoconsultants.com/windows/isapi/
Here's a link to some information about the product. It does work, it's a good product. I'm not sure I'd recommend ordering it while the vendor's site is down though.
EDIT
The vendor site is back up and here: http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/