URL Redirection

[jjbigfish]

I have reconfigured all of my url structures on my development server, but don't want to lose the existing urls indexed in Google, etc..

How would I go about redirecting my existing URL's to the new URL's on my new server when I switch over to it?

[bkseo]

301 redirect. Check out this page by google

301 redirects - Webmaster Tools Help

[cristinascabbia]

For 301 Redirect you need to make changes in .htaccess file which will be hosted on your server. I want to show you code for it:

PHP Redirect:

<?
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://www.new-domain.com" );
?>

In ASP:

Open the old web page and replace all its content with the following code, replacing "www.new-location.com" with the file name of the new page.

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.new-location.com"
%>

In ASP .NET:

<script runat="server">
private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently";
Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-location.com");
}
</script>

[ulancer]

Where you able to make this change successful? I tried it on my website and got a blank white page.

[Doyle]

I just did that with a site with a url I am no longer using. It is re-directed to my new site.
Question: What will happen when G picks it up and I get an extra few thousand links all of the sudden on my new site. Could this hit a red flag?

[tstolber]

Its usually preferable to do the 301 redirect with an .htaccess file. This way you can be a little more flexible in the conditions of the URLs. You can also provide redirects and rewrties for URLs that don't exist any more (which is probably the case when you upload a different site). The method discussed by cristinascabbia requires that you place this on every single page. .htaccess can handle site wide with one conditional line - or on a line by line basis if required.

[frankQuinnn]

301 redirect. Check out this page by google

301 redirects - Webmaster Tools Help

I agree with 301 redirect as it passes 85% of value of the old URL to the new URLs and your new page sustains rankings and starts giving same value as the old URL.

[kevvin]

URL redirection is an extremely useful service aimed at helping users point their domains or subdomains to certain URLs when necessary. This is usually needed in cases when a certain website is no longer available under its original domain name when all users linking to it need to be automatically informed of this update. Thus, the URL redirection functionality helps domain owners preserve the relevance of the incoming links to their websites.