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November 15, 2007

Making a 301 Redirect Work Faster with Search Engines

301s can effectively be used to inform a search engine that you have moved page a to a new permanent location. While they help make matters easier for webmasters, they are also so very sloooooooooooooow. A WebmasterWorld member wants to know if there is any way to expedite the process.

The only search engine that seems to somewhat support this is Yahoo's Dynamic URL Rewriting, where you can get your site crawled more efficiently by informing Yahoo of "dynamic parameters in URLs that they'd like Yahoo! to ignore, which [Yahoo will] then automatically rewrite accordingly."

However, there really is no easy way to speed up the 301 process, from what we know. Do you know any way to do it? What are your methods?

Forum discussion continues at WebmasterWorld.



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posted Tamar Weinberg in Search Engine Optimization at November 15, 2007 10:43 AM Comments (4)

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"Do you know any way to do it?"
... When I read this posts headline I was hoping you'd have that answer. :(

 

Posted by John Fitzsimmons at November 15, 2007 11:02

Submit a sitemap.xml with all the redirected URL's and all the new URL's both. This has worked for us in the past to get it done quickly.

 

Posted by Brian Mark at November 15, 2007 11:22

John Fitzsimmons, well, the answer is below your comment. :)

 

Posted by Barry Schwartz at November 15, 2007 11:28

Put fresh links on the URLs that are redirecting, it is a bit of a waste of links though.

 

Posted by David Eaves at November 15, 2007 16:17

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