SEO Friendly .htaccess 301 Redirects

This was posted on 12/04/2010 | (No Comments Yet)

Quick and easy htaccess code snippet to save you some negative points when doing website redesigns or changing filenames on your websites. This is a GOOGLE friendly way of redirecting your old file locations to new ones. Google typically picks up on these in about a week or two after you first upload.

You can toss this in your .htaccess to tell your server where to send your clients when they try and access a file.  This is called a <b>301 redirect</b>, which essentially tells search engines and browsers that your file has been <b>temporarily moved</b>.

This also works if you want to redirect a folder.

As always, you can put as many of these as necessary in your htaccess file. I have a client with a good twenty or thirty of these with no issues. Just make sure you don't accidentally redirect a file or folder that is in use.

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