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Old 01-07-2005, 12:07 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Arrow Avoid SE penalty with permanent redirects in .htaccess?

After a server migration, I discovered the version of CPanel provided by a certain hosting service started writing permanent redirects to the .htaccess file in this format:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://www.redirectedurl.com/

The only form I saw before was:

Redirect permanent / http://www.redirectedurl.com/

So, will this new "RedirectMatch" format result in a search engine penalty for sites to which a number of domains are redirected, or will it preserve the immunity from penalty afforded by the earlier and simpler form? Thanks in advance to anyone who knows the answer.
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Re: Avoid SE penalty with permanent redirects in .htaccess?

They're both permanent redirects - same HTTP code 301 - and thus they should be treated the same by spiders & crawlers.
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Re: Avoid SE penalty with permanent redirects in .htaccess?

Thanks for your reply. I figured the answer might be something like that and focus on the 'permanent' part, but I'm not taking any chances with this after having once had a site go from page 1 to the land that time forgot.
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Re: Avoid SE penalty with permanent redirects in .htaccess?

Actually, one is a 302 "temporary" redirect and the other is a 301 "permanent" redirect. They are both unique HTTP codes...and 301 is the ideal choice.
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Re: Avoid SE penalty with permanent redirects in .htaccess?

You can put this in your .htaccess file
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^toberedirected.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://wheretoberedirected.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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Good solution if you want a domain to be redirected to a sub-domain or vice versa.
It is a 301 permanent redirect often used to combine PR.
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