301 redirect for page 2, page 3 etc of an article or feed

[RickyShockley]

Hey guys,

We're looking to move a blog feed we have to a new static URL page. We are using 301 redirects but I'm unsure of what to regarding page 2, page 3 etc. of the feed. How do I make sure those urls are being redirected as well?

For example:

Moving FloridaDentist.com/blog/dental-tips/ to a new page url FloridaDentist.com/dental-tips. So, we are using a 301 on that old url to the new one. My questions is what to do with the other pages like FloridaDentist.com/blog/dental-tips/page/3. How do we make sure that page is also 301'd to the new main url?

[mosquitohawk]

If you're looking to redirect ALL sub-pages to the new main page then you would use mod_rewrite with your .htaccess file something like-

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/dental-tips(.*)$ http://floridadentist.com/dental-tips/

If you're trying to redirect to the matching URI just under that new sub-directory this would be more appropriate-

RedirectMatch 301 ^/blog/dental-tips(.*)$ http://floridadentist.com/dental-tips/$1

[Andy-Halliday]

in terms of 301 I would 301 them all back to FloridaDentist.com/dental-tips if you know just have the one page.

however on your site, you have:

http://www.floridadentist.com/

but then if you click on home it takes you to: http://www.floridadentist.com/default.htm which is the same page, just different url. Thats the first big issue I would fix, I would change the link to point to http://www.floridadentist.com/ on your page on the site, but also 301 http://www.floridadentist.com/default.htm to http://www.floridadentist.com just incase anybody has linked to that page, so you don't lose the link juice / traffic from those links.

Also I couldn't find the blog on your site - maybe you should link to it from the main site.