wordpress 301 redirects tutorial

permanent 301 redirect informs search engines and browsers webpage has moved to location.   When Googlebot has spidered URL it will stop indexing URL index the new one this means Google SERPs for the old page will be associated with the new page..   SEO note there's small dampening factor on PageRank passed via 301 redirects, based on PageRank formula assume it's around 15% ~15% of your old pages PageRank will be lost because of the 301 redirect, this could have negative impact on SERPs the old page used to have.   WordPress includes some 301 redirect capabilities built in, for example when site uses SEO Friendly Permalinks the version of URL is 301 redirected to SEO friendly version..   The above is built into WordPress since version 3.3, WordPress 301 redirects do not forget on old site about the ~15% 301 redirect dampening factor..   URLs will NOT automatically 301 redirect to the new, to make this change you'll either have to manually setup 301 redirects via your.htaccess file or install 301 Redirect WordPress Plugin.   This would redirect the home page of the old site to the home page of the domain, page-1 on the old site to page-1 on the domain etc..   Looks for URLs including seo-tutorial-for-wordpress and 301 redirects it to https seo-gold com seo-tutorial-for-wordpress where I moved WordPress SEO Tutorial article to..   Since the cid=number is ID and when moving comments from one site to another WordPress does not maintain the original comment ID the above 301 redirects all URLs with format seo-tutorial-for-wordpress cid=123 from the old site to https seo-gold com seo-tutorial-for-wordpress on the new site..   I've used even more complex set of 301 redirect rules IDs on the two sites did not match up, except I wanted SEO Super Comments to pass ranking benefit..   Read more