301 a PDF?
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Hi
Website A is moving to Website B.
Website A has a number of PDFs - obviously I cant do a '301 redirect' on them. Any suggestions what to do with the PDFs?
Many thanks in advance
Nigel
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Hi Martijn & Matt
Many thanks for your quick replies, good stuff!
All the best
Nigel
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It's a bit hacky, but you can 301 them simply.
Create a directory in place of the pdf called document.pdf or whatever, then inside that folder add a default index php (or whatever you're using) to 301 them from http://www.yourdomain.com/document.pdf/index.php to wherever the pdf now lives.
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Hi Nigel,
Your question was asked before in the Q&A and it looks like answered successfully. Maybe these answers could help you out: http://www.seomoz.org/q/301-redirect-on-a-pdf-docx-files.
Hope this helps!
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