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Several of the troubled sites were displaying duplicate content, one had nothing more than info about the redirection service in the frameset, with only a link to the free site. The links point to the domain name. All in trouble with no rankings.
In one case, someone was just asking about pointing several different domain names to his site in case people mis-spelled it. Someone who uses redirection a lot to Angelfire sites suggested that it be redirected.
People are doing all kinds of things, and with redirection so popular it would be good to know, like a checklist - what are the different methods used for redirection? Which ones are safe?
The short answer, is very few.
If the page really has moved, then a meta refresh at about 10 seconds is the best way to go. Spiders will read it an follow. Make sure to put "moved" in the title of the page with the refresh on it.
301 redirects: if the page has moved, then a 301 is the best way to go. That lets the browser and the spiders know not to come back to this url.
Why 10 seconds? I have 1 second set for redirects of pages that I've moved, but might still be linked to from search engines.
I'll be sure to add Moved to the titles.
And a question that I have. I have /subscribe.html setup to redirect to a subscription form in one of my cgi scripts. I don't want people to have to go to /cgi-bin/blabla/bla.cgi?subscribe-etc. What kind of redirect should I use in this situation?
Gut instinct based on quite a few unrevealing tests. It was something a se tech told me a couple years ago and I took his advice on it.
>What kind of redirect should I use in this situation?
Hide it with ssi if that is an option.
