phranque
msg:4441027 | 9:40 am on Apr 15, 2012 (gmt 0) |
welcome to WebmasterWorld, ablu272!
i would not use any form of robots exclusion protocol on those urls and allow them to be crawled and the 301s indexed.
the only response you need to return for those old site page requests is a 301 status code and a Location: header with the canonical url of the replacement page.
or a 410 status code if the old page no longer exists.
301 Moved Permanently:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2
Location:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.30
410 Gone:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.11
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g1smd
msg:4441084 | 5:43 pm on Apr 15, 2012 (gmt 0) |
You can't add meta tags to a 301 redirect.
The redirect happens at the HTTP level, not in HTML code.
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phranque
msg:4441255 | 5:47 am on Apr 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
actually the protocol implies that you are expected to provide a small html document with the 301 status code and this document could certainly have meta tags but i wouldn't meta robots noindex this response.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2:
| Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of the response SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the new URI(s). |
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ablu272
msg:4441462 | 1:40 pm on Apr 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Thank you for your help!
I will remove the meta from my 301 redirects.
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