Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT)

2004-03-03 Thread Fogelson, Steve
Windows 2003 Web Edition, R:Tango 5.0 Still rewriting all to multi domains/one set of apps. Some of my tafs had to move to different folders. I want to make sure that browsers are redirected to the new location, but that search engines will discover page no longer exists and delete from search

Re: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT)

2004-03-03 Thread webdude
Do not use a 404. This will kill a robot immediately (google at least). A 404 is a page not found and will stop the bot in its tracks. You should use a 301 redirect. To do this in IIS, go to properties/Home Directory. Click a redirection to a URL. Fill in the complete URL including http://; in

Re: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT)

2004-03-03 Thread webdude
p.s. This is a permanent 301 redirect. Do not use a 404. This will kill a robot immediately (google at least). A 404 is a page not found and will stop the bot in its tracks. You should use a 301 redirect. To do this in IIS, go to properties/Home Directory. Click a redirection to a URL. Fill

RE: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT)

2004-03-03 Thread Fogelson, Steve
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT) Do not use a 404. This will kill a robot immediately (google at least). A 404 is a page not found and will stop the bot in its

RE: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT)

2004-03-03 Thread webdude
@crlf@crlf Thanks Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 8:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT) Do not use a 404. This will kill a robot immediately (google at least). A 404 is a page not found

RE: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT)

2004-03-03 Thread Scott Cadillac
: Witango-Talk: Redirects (OT) I believe this would work, but have never tried it in Witango. Another method would be to use the ASP method. I have used this and it works also... % Response.Status = 301 Moved Permanently Response.addheader Location, http://www.yourdomain.com/newpageurl