If you're moving or renaming your page URLs or the directories those pages reside in, you'll need to do 301 redirects. 301 redirects are like a "change of address" card for the search engines -- they ...

If you have a website, the last thing you want is a 404 error page when a page link cannot be found. Not only is it bad for your Google search rankings, but it is ...

Ever since Web addresses started appearing in print, it’s been tempting to lop the “www” off to make the URL easier to remember and to use. Does it matter if you do that? Is a www address better for ...

Google’s John Mueller was recently featured in a video about 301 redirects in which an interesting revelation was made. As part of the Ask Google Webmasters video series, Mueller answered the ...

A thread at WebmasterWorld has a webmaster who is getting a bit nervous that the 301 redirects he set up for a site won't be the best bet in the long run for his end goals. In summary, his original ...

Eric Enge interviewed Matt Cutts of Google and uncovered a few interesting tidbits about Google, but the most significant piece of information was that 301 redirects do not fully pass the PageRank ...

Google redirection can either refer to forwarding updated Web page locations through a 301 redirect or malware activity that sends users to another website instead of the Google search results page.

Because it takes a while for Google to process a major change like a site move. If redirects are in place for less than a year then Google may not end up crawling the links enough times to recognize ...

Hyperlinks pointing to pages that don't exist on your site are known as broken links. If a user clicks on such a link, they get a 404 error page. Fixing broken links ...