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301 forwarding during site migration problem - several url versions of the same page....

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McTaggart last edited by

Hello, I'm migrating from an old site to a new site, and 301 forwarding many of the pages...

My key problem is this I'm seeing www.website.com/ indexed in SE and www.website.com/default.aspx in showing as URL when I'm on homepage - should I simply 301 forward both of these?

Then for several internal pages there are 2/3 versions of each page indexed. Canonicalization issues. Again, I'm wondering whether I should 301 forward each URL even if there are several different indexed URLs for the same page?

Your advice will be welcome! Thanks in advance - Luke
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McTaggart @Chris.Menke last edited by

Thanks Chris for the useful feedback - much appreciated
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Chris.Menke last edited by

Luke,

As far as the internal pages, if the URLs are not getting any search traffic and they don't have any links, I wouldn't worry too much about redirecting them. If you do need to worry about them, canonicalize them and redirect the canonical version--same for the homepage.
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