301 redirect link

[itmlage]

Hi, I found some explanations on seomoz about permanently links, but I'm not sure, if I understood right, what to do.

Our website has been created with a wrong structure and I have to change the URL of a couple of pages. E. G.  http://www.ix-tours.com/Youth/ixdestBrusselYouth.aspx  should be changed to  http://www.ix-tours.com/DE/Jugend/BruesselJ.aspx to allow search identify it as a german page.

What to do?

• Should I delete all content from the old page and insert the redirect to the knew one?

• The code as follows has to be inserted in the head section?

Thank you for your help

Brgds

georg

[AUSOM]

You can try following

<configuration><location path="services.htm"></location>
<location path="products.htm"></location></configuration>

[itmlage]

I tried this, but it seems to be a solution for apache servers. It doesn`t work on windows server with .aspx pages.

[Vizergy]

The below instructions can be found here: http://www.isitebuild.com/301-redirect.htm

This is how I do it:

1. To create a .htaccess file, open notepad, name and save
the file as .htaccess (there is no extension).

2. If you already have a .htaccess file on your server,
download it to your desktop for editing.

3. Place this code in your .htaccess file:

redirect 301 /old/old.htm http://www.you.com/new.htm

4. If the .htaccess file already has lines of code in it,
skip a line, then add the above code.

5. Save the .htaccess file

6. Upload this file to the root folder of your server.

7. Test it by typing in the old address to the page you've
changed. You should be immediately taken to the new
location.

Notes: Don't add "http://www" to the first part of the
statement - place the path from the top level of your site
to the page. Also ensure that you leave a single space
between these elements:

redirect 301 (the instruction that the page has moved)

/old/old.htm (the original folder path and file name)

http://www.you.com/new.htm (new path and file name)

When the search engines spider your site again they will
follow the rule you have created in your .htaccess file.
The search engine spider doesn't actually read the 
.htaccess file, but recognizes the response from the 
server as valid.