Questions Related to 301 Redirect

Questions Related to 301 Redirect

1. Why set a preferred domain and transfer domains without “www” to those with “www” through 301 or other means?

    

   This is mainly for URL standardization, so that the website's weight is concentrated on a certain domain name instead of being dispersed.
2. Can I 301 - redirect the domain name with “www” to the one without “www”?

    

   If you find that the domain name without “www” has a better ranking or much better indexing, you can 301 - redirect the domain name with “www” to the one without “www”. The reason we usually suggest 301 - redirecting the domain name without “www” to the one with “www” is mainly due to the Chinese people's habit of using domain names, which is generally to use the ones with “www”.
3. Is it okay not to resolve or forward the domain name without “www”?

    

   Since many people may enter the domain name without “www” when visiting your website, it is recommended to bind it.
4. Do I need to 301 - redirect index.html or index.php, etc. to the main domain name?

    

   This is not necessary. The purpose of doing 301 is to concentrate the weight. As long as both internal and external links use the main domain name as the address, that is, use the URL without “index” as the anchor text, the function of concentrating the weight can be achieved. And when all links do not contain “index”, neither users nor search engines will access the URL with “index”.
5. Paid Technical Support

    

   If you can't achieve a normal 301 due to server problems or your own technical operations, you can ask technicians to solve it on your behalf.
6. Detailed Differences between 301 Redirect and URL Forwarding

    

   URL forwarding is divided into explicit forwarding and implicit forwarding. If it's for SEO, the latter will be directly penalized. The following “URL forwarding” generally refers to explicit forwarding. There is a view that URL forwarding is not conducive to SEO, as it does not transfer the PR value and website weight, while 301 is very SEO - friendly and can transfer PR. URL forwarding uniformly redirects existing website addresses to a new domain name. For 301 redirect, if using code, it is generally only effective for the home page. Although htaccess can achieve the goal, it is not supported by Windows. The best way is to use the redirection in the IIS console (the effect has not been tested), or use htaccess (using regular expressions to achieve corresponding redirections for each path, which is equivalent to replacing the domain name).
7. How to 301 - Redirect Multiple Domain Names to One Domain Name

    

   For example, if domain names ABCD need to be redirected to domain name Z:

• Method 1: Achieve it through resolution. Forward domain names ABCD to domain name Z through URL forwarding.
• Method 2: Achieve it through code or the server. That is, perform redirection through a program or use the 301 redirection function of the server.