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**webuyallhomes1** · 11-10-2009, 03:54 AM

What is the purpose of 301 redirection.I know this is one of the search engine friendly tips.Please tell your opinions

**joan.lopez** · 11-10-2009, 04:00 AM

I can say to redirect traffic?

**chrishirst** · 11-10-2009, 04:56 AM

Yep! that sums it up. It's for redirecting a URI permanently to a new location.

**madness222** · 11-10-2009, 06:44 AM

Aside from that you can use 301 redirect if you have to change file names or move pages around, because it's the safest option.

**jp82** · 11-10-2009, 11:53 PM

its used for many things. most importantly to help google find the right content and also prevent duplicate content penalties and ect ect ect

**sampeterson** · 11-11-2009, 01:38 AM

Hey its been written. If you do temporary redirection, your redirected spot will not get you indexed. Why do you show as a temporary redirection to search engines when you are switching to some permanent place. Just imagine if you are changinf your home permanently to some other place, wont you change the address in all the places of proof or any other documents related, Thats what you are doing with 301.
Got it? Or still do you need more.

**businesscredit** · 11-11-2009, 02:09 AM

It is the easy and safest way to redirect links. For example, if you have the same links on your site that needs to redirect and updated always, 301 redirection is very very helpful. You will just only change the link on htaccess without changing all the links on your site.

**amorsolo** · 11-11-2009, 02:18 AM

301 redirect is very important when you change your url, domain name, moving web pages etc.

To share my experience, I changed my permalink in wordpress months ago and got messed up. All my old urls' went to "page not found," Google penalized my site, my PR went to PR 2 to 0.

It took several months until Google indexed all my pages and returned my PR back.

**chrishirst** · 11-11-2009, 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jp82

its used for many things. most importantly to help google find the right content and also prevent duplicate content penalties and ect ect ect

There are NO duplicate content PENALTIES!!!!!!

**chrishirst** · 11-11-2009, 04:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amorsolo

301 redirect is very important when you change your url, domain name, moving web pages etc.

To share my experience, I changed my permalink in wordpress months ago and got messed up. All my old urls' went to "page not found," Google penalized my site, my PR went to PR 2 to 0.

It took several months until Google indexed all my pages and returned my PR back.

Your site did NOT get penalised!!!!!!

You MOVED all of your pages. PR is based on the URI, you CHANGED all of them so. ... ...

**firestone1029** · 11-11-2009, 05:24 AM

for me,the most important function of 301 redirection is Dynamic Address Translation, Static Address is more friendly to search engine

**chrishirst** · 11-11-2009, 05:27 AM

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Static Address is more friendly to search engine

Well you are completely wrong there but...

But using a phrase like "Dynamic Address Translation" does make it sound like you know what you are talking about.

**akki45** · 11-11-2009, 07:05 AM

301 redirection is helpful basically for updating links of your site.

**rypher21** · 11-12-2009, 02:56 AM

its the best way to ensure that users and SE's are directed to the correct page.

**brayoon** · 11-12-2009, 03:21 AM

301 redirect is one of the most important factor for SEO. 301 redirect can be effectively used to change your domain name without harming your current SERP.

**chrishirst** · 11-12-2009, 04:21 AM

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Originally Posted by brayoon

301 redirect is one of the most important factor for SEO. 301 redirect can be effectively used to change your domain name without harming your current SERP.

Wrong!!

It is NOT an important factor at all.

It is a TOOL that can be used to assist, should you NEED to change URIs for some reason.

And even with a permanent redirection there WILL be a loss of SE traffic, rankings etc
At best this will be for a few months, at worst it will be a permanent loss.

**ahmi** · 11-16-2009, 06:05 AM

301 redirection is the best way to retain all your links.

**chrishirst** · 11-16-2009, 06:10 AM

Nope. The links will stay no matter what you do, even if they are pointing to the wrong place.

**chrishirst** · 11-19-2009, 04:17 AM

THAT is NOT the purpose of a permanent redirect.

It is ONLY one use of the response.