This post will focus on the two main methods of managing the redirection of a single page on your website – the 301 redirect and the rel="canonical" attribute ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since Web addresses started appearing in print, it’s been tempting to lop the “www” off to make the URL easier to remember and to use. Does it matter if you do that? Is a www address better for ...

A Google Groups thread has a very interesting discussion that is almost complete. The discussion takes you through the life cycle of a 301 redirect. Site owner moved from domain.com to domain.info, on ...

Google’s John Mueller was recently featured in a video about 301 redirects in which an interesting revelation was made. As part of the Ask Google Webmasters video series, Mueller answered the ...

A common question that comes up when you do a major site revamp or when you take over an old site is what do you do with the old URLs? I often see people request or implement 301 permanent redirects ...

Google removed outdated structured data documentation, but instead of returning a 404 response, they have chosen to redirect the old URLs to a changelog that links to the old URL, thereby causing an ...

One of the problems with link development gurus is their obsession with 301 redirects. Heck, I have even heard search engine software engineers tout 301 redirects as the magic solution to maintaining ...

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 ...