Search engine friendly Redirect Checker

Depending upon various reasons and based upon numerous factors webmaster and web marketing professionals use to have redirection from one domain to another or redirection for a complete website to another website or one webpage to the another.

Redirection means if anybody will try to open the old domain or webpage which is redirected to any other domain or webpage; he/she will be transferred to the new domain or webpage.

Example

http://www.florida-disney.com is redirecting to the http://www.tickets-at-half-price.com

Depending upon type of redirection and other factor, Search engines also reads the type of redirection you have for your website or webpage and then transfer the search engine ranking & PR(Pagerank) to the new domain.

301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. It's not that hard to implement and it should preserve your search engine rankings for that particular page. If you have to change file names or move pages around, it's the safest option. The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently".

You can Test your redirection with Search Engine Friendly Redirect Checker

Below are a Couple of methods to implement URL Redirection

IIS Redirect

In internet services manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect

• Select the radio titled "a redirection to a URL".
• Enter the redirection page
• Check "The exact url entered above" and the "A permanent redirection for this resource"
• Click on 'Apply'
• Redirect in ColdFusion

<.cfheader statuscode="301" statustext="Moved permanently">

<.cfheader name="Location" value="http://www.new-url.com">

Redirect in PHP

<?

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );

Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" );

?>

Redirect in ASP

<%@ Language=VBScript %>

<%

Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently" Response.AddHeader "Location", " http://www.new-url.com"

>

Redirect 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-url.com");

}

</script>

Redirect with htaccess

Create a .htaccess file (if does not exists) in your root directory.

Redirect permanent / http://www.new-url.com

How to Redirect HTML

Please refer to section titled 'How to Redirect with htaccess', if your site is hosted on a Linux Server and 'IIS Redirect', if your site is hosted on a Windows Server.

How this SEO friendly redirection check tool works

To check a domain redirection whether this is a search engine friendly redirection or not, enter a domain name and hit the submit button. This will revert with the type of redirection and tell you whether it is a SEO friendly redirection or not.

Our recommendation

Always use search engine friendly redirection for your website because this prevent your old search engine traffic and sometime also replace your old rankings to the new domain. Use 301 which is a permanent redirection can be done through IIS.

If you are not sure how to use these redirection, you may ask your hosting provider to setup this fro you.