Hi all,

I believe i can get the solution of my problem after long time.

My website is 5 years old site, and 2 version English and Spanish before 4 months i have redesign and developed my site in PHP from html my old URL structure was like English version (.com/index.htm) and Spanish Version (.com/spanish/index_es.htm)

After developing the new pages in php my one of friend said that you have to redirect the old page to new page other wise your PR will get down and old indexed pages will shows 404 error.

So i have followed his advice i have redirected (.com/index.htm) to (com/php/index.php) and (.com/spanish/index_es.htm) to (.com/spanish/php/index_es.php) by JavaScript code as below:

<!--
<script language="JavaScript">
var time = null
function move()
{
window.location = 'php/index.php';
}
</script>


But still the new page have not got crawled and i have studied some blog and forums they are saying that google doesn't support the JavaScript code and they are advising to have below tag:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.yourcompany.com/php/index.php">

Please Advice if I replace the javasript with this tag that create any problem or google will crawl my new URL quick or i can fetch my pr to this page.

Please I am waiting for you reply I am worried after spending too money

Search engines bots don't trigger javascript so it will have absolutely zero effect.
And a meta refresh does NOT transfer the page in the SE index.

You have to use a server side redirect
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...p?showforum=61

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Search engines bots don't trigger javascript so it will have absolutely zero effect.
And a meta refresh does NOT transfer the page in the SE index.

You have to use a server side redirect
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...p?showforum=61

Hi chris,

Thanks for your reply. But I am not that much technical and i have reviewed your link but there they are saying that 301 redirection is for whole domain change but i am change only the path on same domain.

Please advice descriptively so i can get.

there are dozens of threads there dealing with everything from domain wide redirects to individual page redirects.
this for example -> http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...ndpost&p=60621

I want to know genral information of page Redirect of the purpose of SEO. Can I use a content page of target keywords then Redirect it my main site ?

If you want to do some thing dumb like that, feel free.

Originally Posted by John_audson

I want to know genral information of page Redirect of the purpose of SEO. Can I use a content page of target keywords then Redirect it my main site ?

If you are talking about having a doorway page on your website, I would highly recommend you not to do such thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_page