redirect questions

search-safe redirects within a domain using coldfusion and IIS

[calimehtar]

I just did a redesign of a site. For various reasons it didn't seem appropriate to use existing folders and filenames, so things got moved around quite a bit. Now it's time to retire the old site and I want to do it in a way that will be transparent to search engines.

I like the sound of 301 redirects and I'd like to do that if possible. The system I'm using is ColdFusion, and the server is (I think) IIS. All the redirects are to be _within_ the domain, and in fact independant of domain since the entire site is mirrored on both .com and .au.

The most important things here are that I want to retain my pagerank, and I want to retire these pages permanently.

So, is 301 the tool for the job? Is there any way of implementing this using coldfusion? I've seen instructions on how to do it using asp but not coldfusion.

[jdMorgan]

calimehtar,

You might try this thread [webmasterworld.com] for some useful pointers on how to do redirects on IIS.

HTH,
Jim

[calimehtar]

Thanks, JD, but I saw that page already. I'm not the IIS admin, so I won't be the one doing this.

Also, a cursory inspection of the screenshot linked to on that page suggests that IIS' implementation of this feature is geared towards sites that change domains _exclusively_. If this is the case, then I clearly want some other sort of redirect.

[jdMorgan]

calimehtar,

The screen shot may indeed suggest, but if you can't do it at the server level, it certainly can't be done with a script. Either enter /newpagename or [samedomain...] in the box, or use "from a directory on this computer" and give it the new pages's filename.

I use Apache exclusively; Perhaps someone who has done this on IIS will come along and give you exact directions. Otherwise, a simple experiment will answer the question for you.

HTH,
Jim