Which one should I be using 301 redirects
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Hiya guys,
I have a little problem, not sure which one I should be using, for 301, be easy on me I've not dealt with this before.
So we have http://www.talknightlife.co.uk
and I've done redirects for http://talknightlife.co.uk to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk
host http://www.talknightlife.sheffieldspeedcameras.co.uk to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk
Because my website is purely a forum and in the canonical error from the optimisation tool is showing 301 canonical = http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forum.php should I be redirecting that to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk or the other way round, or just leave it ? I'm a little confused
Cheers in advanced for your help guys
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You have two options here:
1/ Leave it: You must have rel="canonical" href=" http://www.talknightlife.co.uk" >> it's ok
2/Redirect 301 redirect http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forum.php to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk if you can't do it, redirect 301 http://www.talknightlife.co.uk to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forum.php
(2) better then (1) - My opinion
Add this to your htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
# forum.php to /
*RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /.forum.php\ HTTP/** RewriteRule ^(.*)forum.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]**
It's work for me !
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thats my solution too, but when I do the 301 direct on the /forum.php it doesn't work,
then again I'm confused, should i be doing the 301 on my domain host provider? my server provider? or via Vbseo on Vbulletin
any more answers would be much appreciated guys
Cheers Luke
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I understand your confusion. Here's how I would look at it. It seems clear you want your main authority home page to be : http://www.talknightlife.co.uk
Make your canonical on all pages in question point to that URL: http://www.talknightlife.co.uk
Then, 301 redirect http://www.talknightlife.co.uk/forum.php to http://www.talknightlife.co.uk
I'm not a technical SEO guru so I am interested to know if anyone else has different advice. But this seem to make common sense to me.
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