[BUSINESS] do 301 redirects help or break your seo

[Abby]

I read here on another thread about 301 redirects and think it is a trick way to redirect a domain but how about for seo, is it good, bad or indifferent.

[jag]

This was used in the past by some to spoof their domain rank, it was a old black hat trick

[Colmike7]

Just use them the right way these days. The tricks don't work as well as they used to for a couple reasons.

[viking]

Just use them the right way these days. The tricks don't work as well as they used to for a couple reasons.

Unfortunately

[tacnet]

Google will apparently follow 301 redirects without loosing link juice so long as its not too many. Think I saw somewhere that 3 or over is probably pushing it a bit

Remember you can also use mod_rewrite if its all on the same domain. That wont show as a redirect as far as google is concerned. Mod_rewrite is also VERY powerful for getting all your URL's google friendly but thats another subject

Dont bother with 302's unless its just a temporary thing

Hope that helps

[CanadianChick]

Google will apparently follow 301 redirects without loosing link juice so long as its not too many. Think I saw somewhere that 3 or over is probably pushing it a bit

Remember you can also use mod_rewrite if its all on the same domain. That wont show as a redirect as far as google is concerned. Mod_rewrite is also VERY powerful for getting all your URL's google friendly but thats another subject

Dont bother with 302's unless its just a temporary thing

Hope that helps

so if you use 301 for long term if is not god for seo?

[T.B.W]

I use 301's out of necessity and don't care about the seo

[Ricks-Cams]

I read here on another thread about 301 redirects and think it is a trick way to redirect a domain but how about for seo, is it good, bad or indifferent.

It all depends on what your main goal is

[fappmaster]

Been using 301 redirects for ever

[killah]

Been using 301 redirects for ever

Same with me

[tacnet]

so if you use 301 for long term if is not god for seo?

Not at all, you can use 301's for as long as needed without affecting your SEO.

Just try to avoid 301 chains (ie a page that redirects to a page that redirects to another page and so on). Anymore than 3 in a chain and you could start loosing link juice

[bestfreeporn]

Funny story when I first started out I used to ad the domains n my server and put an htaccess redirect to where ever I wanted the domain to forward to Then I discovered 301's.

[shoopa]

No downside to my sites and have used a 301 for at least 6 years on many of the sites, never seen any negative impact on the search engine stuff.

[nudelinks]

You're talking to a guy who used d0zen of them and loves it.

[T.B.W]

They shouldn't affect the se of the site they point to.