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When it comes to making URL structural changes to your website, it is very important to ensure you 301 redirect your old URLs to the new URLs. Common cases of doing this are migrating between pages on a site or migrating between sites. Doing 301 redirects for migrations has SEO and usability impact and if…
Read More 4 Important Reasons for SEO 301 RedirectionIn case you’re wondering whether 301 redirects preserve the referrer information or not and how this may affect Google Analytic’s referrer information, I’ll show you a simple example. So pretty much what I did was I did a Google search for clothes and found some ads on the right hand side. I used firebug to…
Read More Google Analytics: Does 301/302 Redirect Preserve Referrer Information?If you’re trying to do some testing on your existing WordPress website locally (using something like XAMPP) using the same files and database but find that it keeps 302 redirecting to your website rather than running it locally, you will have to configure your WordPress options to set your home and site URL to your…
Read More WordPress: Getting unwanted 302 redirects locallyYou may have read my previous entry on performing a 301 redirect from Blogger to WordPress, where I wrote a script that will capture all traffic to your old Blogger site and redirect it to your new WordPress site. Ideally you’d want to do the 301 redirects from the web server, but unfortunately Blogger doesn’t…
Read More Limitations of Client-Side Javascript Redirect – Blogger to WordPressAs promised in my previous post (301 Meta Refresh Redirects: How Google and Yahoo Sees It), I will show you a script I wrote that will handle 301 redirects from Blogger to WordPress using the meta refresh tag and javascript. I have tested it on my old blogger (http://dannynsl.blogspot.com) and it seems to have worked…
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