Welcome home. I wondered why you have been so quiet over the past week…

Thanks for the info! I just changed my site to use redirect 301 /newpage http://www.yoursite.com/bans/

Worked like a charm!

Rochelle

This is the same problem I’ve had with quite a few of my BANS sites, and I added WP to them to boost their ratings. I’ll be interested to see how your sites work out, because even though I added tons of original blog content Google still won’t look at these sites! But at least they’re still indexed, and fortunately they get good traffic from Yahoo and MSN.

I sure wish I knew what Google doesn’t like about my sites, and hope that your blog will work for you on yours!

I’ve been using the redirection plugin, but this is easier, I think.

Keep sharing what you find useful. You are a big help to me.

Julie

Just got back from a week in DC and saw this post in my reader…

The “Meta Refresh” should be your LAST option for redirecting a page… Search engines look at it as a devious method that was often used by spammers in the past.

The best (Of course, its never the easiest) is to just grab the WordPress redirect plugin, and set a 301.

OR…

Just edit the sites .htaccess in your cPanel > file manager > (I recommend editing the htaccess ON the server itself versus locally) and add the 301:

redirect 301 /newpage http://www.yoursite.com/bans/

Mark

Glad I could help : )

Yes, I use Hostgator. To be honest, I had no idea there is a redirect option within cPanel. This is pretty easy, so I think I’ll stick with this method.

Rochelle

You’ve done it again. Thanks for that life raft. I promise you I spent over an hour with hostgator last week trying to figure out how to do this properly.

By the way, do you use hostgator and if so, do you know how to use the redirect listed in their cpanel? It seems rather simple but neither I nor the hostgator guy could figure out what was going wrong.

I’m sure today’s redirect tip will help in a big way.

Thanks again!

Sunshine