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Does it make *any* difference to Google et al whether I redirect at IIS level or put an asp redirect in each page, as long as I'm sending the correct server response headers?
I have been asked the best way to redirect an old asp site to a newly designed php one on a different server without jeopardising SEO rankings. I realise this may be a million dollar question, but how best should I go about this?
Okay, so the old site is on a Windows Server. The new site sounds like it will be on an Apache Server.
This means that you will probably utilize Apache's mod_rewrite.
Does it make *any* difference to Google et al whether I redirect at IIS level or put an asp redirect in each page, as long as I'm sending the correct server response headers?
As long as the proper server headers are being returned, no, it doesn't make a difference.
But, if you have a lot of pages to redirect, you will be much better off handling them all from one location, mod_rewrite.
Okay, so the old site is on a Windows Server. The new site sounds like it will be on an Apache Server.
That is correct.
This means that you will probably utilize Apache's mod_rewrite
Can you tell me some more about this? I didn't think I could use any apache stuff to redirect as the old/current site is on an IIS server. I thought my only options were IIS and asp. Can you elaborate?
