Redirect old url for search engine purposes.

[zapiy]

Fellas i used to have a eblah forum and the url was http://www.maturevideogamer.co.uk/forum/Blah.pl?‏ this was submitted to loads of sites and is still getting loads of traffic and i want to take advantage of that. The url is now http://www.maturevideogamer.co.uk. I have a hosting with apache.


cheers

[wige]

If all you are doing is redirecting http://yourdomain/folder/script.pl to http://yourdomain/ you can use a simple redirect script. Create a file in the root directory of your web site called .htaccess, with the following line of code:

Redirect 301 /forum/Blah.pl http://www.maturevideogamer.co.uk

[zapiy]

You are the daddy... I have been to various forums trying to get this sorted and i one reply WHACK it works.

Cheers m8

[zapiy]

Will all the spiders see this now and re index my site?

[Tech Manager]

Spiders coming to the old site will see the 301 redirect and consider it permanent. They should begin indexing your new site. In theory that is how it is supposed to work. However, indexing can still be based on the individual search engines and the content on your new site.