Tag Archives: 302 redirects

Some Big Websites Suck at Non-WWW to WWW Redirects

The unforgivable sin of usability: homepage URL unreachable

Alright, folks. Today we’re going to talk about PageRank. Oh, I know. It’s dying and/or dead. Ok. Awesome. But it’s still a metric that we can use… at least a little. Like in this post, which happens to be about people not correctly redirecting their homepage URL from the non-www to www version.

February 5, 2011 by | 4 Comments

Matt Cutts Redirects His Blog With 302 Redirect

Whoa. I’m late to the game on this one. I just surfed over to the Matt Cutts blog. Low and behold, there is a 302 redirect from mattcutts.com to www.dullest.com. Matt posted about this change here, and it looks like he made this change on April 26. Apparently, he is changing things one at a [...]

April 30, 2009 by | 0 Comments

A Caveman’s Approach to 301 Redirects for SEO

301 Redirects By definition, a permanent redirect. Use these to redirect users and search engines from old URLs to new URLs. 302 Redirects By definition, a temporary redirect. Use these when temporarily deactivating a URL or moving a URL to a new location. If you don’t understand any of that, just remember this quote I [...]

January 23, 2009 by | 1 Comment

An Exhaustive Explanation of 301 Redirects for SEO

Redirects. This is the one topic that continues to evade e-commerce dev teams and online marketers. The concept is actually very simple. A redirect is a piece of code that directs traffic from one URL to another. Here is a list of the most common redirects and when you should use them: 301 Redirect: By [...]

January 23, 2009 by | 2 Comments