5 replies to this topic

[Danno]

Hello

In designing a website, we had to set up a perminent redirect on the server to fix a bug in IE5.5 on the Mac. This is a redirect of index.html to index2.html -- Will it hurt marketing?

Can I still submit domainname.com or will I have to submit domainname.com/index2.html?

Thank you for your time!

[Jill]

If it's a permanent 301-redirect it should be fine.

[Danno]

Thank you very much!

[SpeedyPin]

Example: You have a legacy domain that derives some traffic and sales and you want to "close it down," but first want to make sure that sales/traffic get intorduced and used to going to the new domain first.

A 301 redirect will allow you to safely redirect traffic from the legacy domain to the new domain w/o negatively affecting the established rankings of the new domain?

Is this correct? :learn:

[Randy]

Correct Eric. As long as the old domain wasn't doing anything funny that got it into trouble.

[SpeedyPin]

Ok, cool! Thank you.