Overheard in the tech blogosphere » redirects http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard A Whatis.com blog Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:32:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Overheard: How redirects can kill your site’s traffic http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-how-redirects-can-kill-your-sites-traffic/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-how-redirects-can-kill-your-sites-traffic/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:02:27 +0000 Margaret Rouse http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/overheard/overheard-how-redirects-can-kill-your-sites-traffic/ serge-thibodeau.jpg Previously, www.business.com, an online resource that has been very popular for many years and that has over 600,000 web pages in its root index was banned and penalized in Google, simply because it was using the wrong kind of redirect method. Getting a site banned in a search engine because of the wrong class of redirect happens more often than some people think.

Serge Thibodeau, The Rundown on 301 and 302 Redirects

Serge provides a good overview of the problems bad redirects can cause — and how to make sure your redirects are the kind Google tolerates.

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