{"id":65,"date":"2009-12-28T08:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/seo-tips\/65\/301-redirects-do-they-benefit-seo-practices\/"},"modified":"2009-12-28T08:33:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T13:33:42","slug":"301-redirects-do-they-benefit-seo-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/seo-tips\/65\/301-redirects-do-they-benefit-seo-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"301 Redirects &ndash; Do they benefit SEO practices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked this question a lot.&#160; Usually, it stems from a couple of sources\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1) Someone uses the wonderful tool over at <a href=\"http:\/\/websitegrader.com\/\">WebsiteGrader<\/a> to check their website.&#160; One of the suggestions, is to use a 301 redirect to make sure either the non-www goes to the www version, or that the www version of your URL goes to the non-www.<\/p>\n<p>2) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragmites.com\/\">Pragmites<\/a> includes a short list of suggested optimizations when they do some link building for you.&#160; One of their suggestions is the 301 redirect.<\/p>\n<p>If you don\u2019t know what a 301 redirect is, I suggest you start reading this article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobook.com\/archives\/000215.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">What is a 301 Redirect?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I really stink at doing .htaccess modifications\u2026 so trying to figure out how to do this through .htaccess was not an easy task for me.&#160; Until I found that someone had already done this, and had already written it up too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEO Book to the Rescue!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SEO has an excellent article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobook.com\/archives\/001714.shtml\">how to create a 301 redirect<\/a> for your website.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>They have examples of how to 301 redirect non-www to www, how to redirect from www to non-www, and even one about HTTPS redirects\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Plus, as an added bonus, a way to redirect a large number of URLs from an old website, to a new one (PHP coding required for this last method).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get asked this question a lot.&#160; Usually, it stems from a couple of sources\u2026 1) Someone uses the wonderful tool over at WebsiteGrader to check their website.&#160; One of the suggestions, is to use a 301 redirect to make sure either the non-www goes to the www version, or that the www version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-tips","tag-301-redirect","tag-canonical-urls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericburdo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}