.htaccess

[tapupartforpres]

Hello,

Quick question.

We are launching our new site soon and I'm doing the 301 redirects.

The indexed directory currently is www.xxx/blog/

The new blog is www.xxx/blog

Without the "/". Does this matter. When I type in the old blog directory on the new site (still on test server), it goes to the new address without the "/" automatically.

Just don't want to lose any ranking, we were just bumped to a 4 page rank, and don't want to lose that.

Thanks

[ozzyr]

i would use a canonical tag on the pages to add the "/" just to be safe

[tapupartforpres]

i would use a canonical tag on the pages to add the "/" just to be safe

The main blog page?

It's a wordpress blog.

Thanks

[Darrin Ward]

Try this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog/$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/blog/index\.(php|htm)
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.SITE.com/blog [R=301,L]

This will 301 redirect /blog/, /blog/index.php, /blog/index.htm and /blog/index.html to /blog

[ozzyr]

and after you've made those changes to your .htaccess file, make sure to get an SEO plugin for your site to help it run smoothly afterwards

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=seo

[abdulhamid1]

.htaccess is very important for internet users.

[ahamid]

SEO is very significant for the bloggers. If you want to bring your website at the first page of Google search, SEO is must.

[ahamid]

In WordPress blog, click on "visit site" and that page will come, it is your main page.