Temperary redirects
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I have a problem with temp redirects, I have a dating site and the redirects happen when guests on the site are prompted to purchase a subscription while trying gain access to the sites contents. I was told to change them to 301 redirects but don't know how. any help, thanks guys.
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Hello,
301's are done in the htaccess file of your server/where your website files are located.
All the best
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It would depend on exactly how you're doing this, but to me this doesn't sound like a situation for a permanent redirects. Permanent redirects will be cached by browsers, meaning if someone goes to a profile page, gets the message, logs in, and goes back to that profile page URL, they may still get redirected to the log in page. I'd be very careful with this.
This sounds like an ideal situation for temporary 302 redirects. Having 301s pass whatever link juice these profile pages have to a log in page doesn't sound very substantial to me. You're probably not trying to get the log in page to rank in Google, and I doubt these profile pages that can only be accessed when a user is logged in are getting a ton of links?
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It's a bit difficult to provide an exact answer since I don't know how your site is configured, what kind of server you are on or what your goals are, but I will try answer your question about how to change temporary redirects to 301 permanent redirects.
If you have a Linux/Apache/PHP server, you can configure sitewide redirects within the .htaccess file. Here is a useful tool for creating .htaccess 301 redirects - http://www.htaccessredirect.net/
If you want to handle the redirects on a page by page basis, you can also do so using PHP.
Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" ); Header( "Location: http://www.new-url.com" ); ?>
Here is a good primer for how to set up 301 redirects if you are not able to set them up with .htaccess or PHP - http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php
Also, for SEO, it is critical to the search engines that 301 permanent redirects are used instead of 302 temporary redirects in most cases. You can use this tool to test if your redirects are working correctly - http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/
Let me know if you need any additional assistance.
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