Geocities 301 Redirect for GoggleBot

How to do it?

[jamesyap]

I have move my geocities page to my new domain for a long time but never did a 301 redirect to pass the PR (I have lots of links to the geocities page). I can't use .htaccess with Geocities. How do I create a 301 redirect with plain .html file? Geocities won't allow .shtml, .php, .asp, .cgi, .pl and all kinds of scriping.

-->Geocities-->Yahoo-->Sxxks, when someone visit my page in geocities, it 1st enter a page that tell my visitor it is hosted by geocities. The visitor have to click again on the link to enter my page! I don't know how google will see this.

[bcc1234]

You can't change the response code of a server from within an html file.

[jdMorgan]

jamesyap,

About the best you can do in this situation is to replace your GeoCities home page with a page that says, "We Have Moved" with a link to your new domain. If the spiders get that far, they will pick up the link, and maybe that will help get your new domain indexed sooner. But you also need to get most or all of the sites that link to you to update their links to point to your new site. Use this opportunity to request that they improve the link text, too, if it needs to be improved.

Jim

[taxpod]

My experience is that Gbot can follow a meta refresh like this:

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="5;URL=http://webmasterwolrd.com">

I have actually found some pages consisting of this and a minimal amount of text actually listed in the index. That doesn't solve all the transfer issues but on geocities, I can't think of a better way to do it.

[Hoople]

I keep a nearly identical page <insert> (index only) </insert> on Geocities with all of the navigation pointing to the present site. MSN has it higher in ranking than the google results!

I felt it was safer than a HTML redirect as a number of threads here have advised against HTML redirects.

[jamesyap]

I keep a nearly identical page <insert> (index only) </insert> on Geocities with all of the navigation pointing to the present site. MSN has it higher in ranking than the google results!

What do you mean by <insert> (index only) </insert>?

[edited by: jamesyap at 10:13 am (utc) on Dec. 24, 2002]

[Hoople]

That was an edit I did after the first post. I had hopes it would look like some of the previous edits others had done.

Oh well, my bad. Sorry for the confusion!

All that is at Geocities is a single file, index.htm with EVERYTHING else on the present domain site.

[jamesyap]

I see I see, I just post a 5 second meta refresh page to tell them 'this site is moved' to my geocities site. See what will happens later.