Keep Google happy when indexing your page

**ovidiuu** · 03-08-2010 05:11 PM

If you have a website with a lot of pages (hundreds) that is also quite old, you should keep all the visitors happy when reaching your site so you are not losing visits.
All you have to do is to have on your web hosting Mod Rewrite enabled. Create a .htaccess file and include in it:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] 
</IfModule>

Please replace the http://www.domain.com with your domain name. This will redirect the visitors to the new domain.

**DavidAmerland** · 03-21-2010 06:39 PM

Originally Posted by ovidiuu

If you have a website with a lot of pages (hundreds) that is also quite old, you should keep all the visitors happy when reaching your site so you are not losing visits.
All you have to do is to have on your web hosting Mod Rewrite enabled. Create a .htaccess file and include in it:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$  http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] 
</IfModule>

Please replace the http://www.domain.com with your domain name. This will redirect the visitors to the new domain.

Mod rewrites and redirects cause indexing issues with Google unless handled properly. The number of websites which have mod-rewrite implemented and are having pages dropped from the Google index has grown over the past year.