301 redirects
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Hi Guys,
Question,
Lets say I have a page oldfile.php at position #2 then set-up a redirection in the following way100 incoming external links--> oldfile.php [301 to] newfile.php
Google comes along and updates its index to newfile.php and ranking of newfile.php remains at position #2. Everything is good.
Lets say in 5months, I come along and delete oldfile.php so we have
100 incoming external links--> deleted(oldfile.php)or
100 incoming external links-->404 error. |||| newfile.php
Do I then loose the rankings on newfile.php.
My thinking is that now that all the external links now point to a page not found, newfile.php should loose rankings
Am I correct in my assumption?
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Yes, the listing may lose the ranking if those 100 backlinks are from worthy sites.
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