How do I set-up a 301 redirect?
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Moz alerted me to two 404 errors on our website. I am now trying to place a 301 redirect on them. How would I go about accomplishing?
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Redirect 301 /registerlogin-2/ http://everlastingchanges.com/registerlogin-3/
But please - remove "scheduling" from main homepage that doesn't exist anymore.
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This should be a suitable guide for you http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html
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The other is everlastingchanges.com/registerlogin-2/
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Yes, one is http://everlastingchanges.com/scheduling...
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Have you got your url? I'll be able to tell you how to do a redirect with that information.
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Hey Harvey, I appreciate the response. However, I have already read through that information and was unable to locate the exact answer on how to redirect. I was given more information on what is a redirection, url, etc.
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If you have 404 somewhere inside of your site there is only one way to fix them - fixing URLs. So if on page A i have link to page B that doesn't exist. Robots will crawl page A and seeing about presence of page B. But on checking page B robots will get 404. So it's much better to fix page A to link to page C that exists. And this is for internal sites.
If you have incoming links to 404. Site A page B link to your site X page Y. Since you can't fix page B then you can make 301 redirect on your website and redirect page Y to page Z that exist.
If you have outgoing links to 404. Then try to find update URL/site if they still exist. If doesn't exist anymore try to find replacement or redirect to archive.org. Or update your page that this doesn't exists anymore.
301 redirects are quick to fix with Apache and it's .htaccess. All you need is just to make somewhere line as:
Redirect 301 /dir/page.htm http://www.example.com/new-dir/new-page.html
Redirect 301 /dir/subdir/page.htm http://www.example.com/new-dir/new-subdir/new-page.php
of course this is example and you need to edit them for your specific case. You also must watch http access log for 404s. -
You should be able to find the answer to your question right here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection
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