301 Redirect of a site moved 1 year back

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February 8th, 2012, 12:59 AM

Rakhi

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301 Redirect of a site moved 1 year back

Will the link juice be transfered now??

I moved my website at end of year 2010 but 301 redirect was not set for web pages that changed the URLs, now the Google webmasters tools have started showing many errors as the old URLs no longer exist. My website is http://www.open-source-development.com/

For example:

/ria_rich_internet_application.shtml has been changed to

http://www.open-source-development.com/rich-internet-application-development.shtml

and so for many more URLs, but old URLs are already added to many directories, blogs, articles that are in search engine index, so redirecting after 1 year would this help in SEO transfer the link juice or should I leave now. Also, do I need to do for every individual page ans there are nearly 20 pages with same error as URL was changed. If I have to set 301 redirect do I need to do using .htaccess file or using some 301 redirect code on every page, your rely would be of great help.

February 8th, 2012, 01:20 AM

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Hi Rakhi,

I would say do the redirects. Even though it is a bit late but as they say "better late than never".
20 URLs you say? That is not too many.

If you want to use htaccess that is fine. It will make things easier to edit and will have all the redirects in one place. Are you using some kind of content management tool or is it a hard coded website? It is easier to implement htaccess redirects if the changed urls follow a certain pattern. Without a pattern one has do individual redirects for each url. If you do NOT wish to have those old page files lying around the website then I suggest do the redirects in the htaccess.

Having broken links in a site does not look good. Neither to the SE Bot nor to any random visitor that follows some link on the web to arrive at a page on your site that returns a 404. So get the redirects.

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February 13th, 2012, 02:30 PM

paul_hutton

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If you are using a htaccess file there is a online tool that will generate quick re-directs for you all you need to do is have the url for the page you want to link from and the page you want to link to.
It is easier to put them in an excel file and copy and paste, it will take a couple of weeks for the errors to disappear but as long as you update your sitemap and publish it to webmaster tools you will be ok