google friendly redirects

[pagetta]

we have on our existing site some asp pages and on our redeisgn these will no longer exist, so we need a redirect. Will the following be google friendly:

<%

if(Request.querystring("WCI") = "xxxx") then
Response.redirect("http://www.mysite.com/newpage1.html")
end if

if(Request.querystring("WCI") = "xxxx") then
Response.redirect("http://www.mysite.com/newpage2.html")
end if

%>

I intend to block robots from crawling this page any more in the robots.txt file and hope to see if drop from the serps and the new pages climb up in the rankings instead. The main purpose for this redirect is the multitude of IBLs built to these pages which we do not want to lose.

any tips on situations like this?

thanks guys :-)

[wednesday]

I know next to nothing about vb but looks like you're going to implement a temporary redirect here.

Verify the result here http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

<%
' Permanent redirection
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.somacon.com/"
Response.End
%>

http://www.somacon.com/p145.php

Originally Posted by pagetta

I intend to block robots from crawling this page any more in the robots.txt file and hope to...

Don't do it. You won't let the bots be aware of the redirect if forbid them to crawl the old url.Just implement 301 redirect, sitback and wait for a few months?! or so.

[adacprogramming]

wednesday is right, you are showing a temporary redirect. this is how dot net does it
<script runat="server">
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
response.status = "301 moved permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.domain.com/file-location.html");
}
</script>
The other way you can do it is in IIS with a windows server or httaccess (something like that) in linux

[pagetta]

ok thanks for that advice - now here's the question....how do I do a 301 redirect? especially for dynamic URLs such as these? where does the script go and what should it say?

[pagetta]

ok I have the 301 redirect doe working, but I need to know how to include script so that if the link is www.mysite.com/page.asp?product1 it goes to one page, and if it is www.mysite.com/page.asp?product2 it goes to another page...

[pagetta]

All done I used this script:

if(Request.querystring("WCI") = "Number1") then
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.mysite.com/number1"
Response.End
end if

if(Request.querystring("WCI") = "Number2") then
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.mysite.com/number2"
Response.End
end if

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