SEO friendly re-directs.

[vacorama]

Hello... is anyone familiar with the most search engine friendly way to re-direct people to a page that has been moved? i was thinking maybe a timed re-direct with javascript..?

[milanmk]

Javascript redirects are not SEO friendly as bots are not able to crawl it. Better option is URL rewriting with htaccess that will also save you from losing any PR or back links.

Milan

[vacorama]

ahh great, thanks so much. yeah i was thinking about mod_rewrite but have never used. but yeah, just checked out some basic re-direct stuff and looks perfect. man, moving sites over is such a headache. thanks for the tip..

[le_gber]

vacorama, have a look here [google.co.uk]

it's also possible to use a server side script to emulate the 301 (if your pages were asp or php pages for example)