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Thanks Alan.

By direct mail I mean actual post not email but thanks for giving my both options.

So I will change them all to 301's then.

BigJoe

Hi,

When we do direct mail to our customers talking about a specific product we sell we usually put a link in the letter so the customer can go directly to the product just by typing a short link, something like:
www.example.com/blue-widget

This link will then re-direct to:
www.example.com/shop/product/brand-name-big-blue-widget-with-green-ends-200m-50diameter.php

Which we are happy with at the moment but I want to check we are doing it correctly in terms of redirects, we currently re-direct it using .htaccess like:
Redirect /blue-widget http://www.example.com/shop/product/brand-name-big-blue-widget-with-green-ends-200m-50diameter.php

This re-directs it as a 302 but should it be done as a 301 ?

I am not sure why we did 302's to start with but I am thinking they should be 301's, I think it might have been because the URL we were redirecting from was imaginary ?

Also should we use the Redirect line in the .htaccess or should we do each one with a RewriteRule ?

Thanks

BigJoe

Thanks.

Will move ahead now with more confidence.

BigJoe

Hi,

We have a successful ecommerce site at www.printerbase.co.uk but we are now branching out and will soon be offering services which we are going to do through a different website with a possible URL of something like www.printerbasesolutions.co.uk so my question is, will having two websites containing the word printerbase have any negative effect on the ranking of www.printerbase.co.uk or would we be better having a completely different URL?

The new site is not going to have any ecommerce functionality it is going to be more about offering the services we can give to clients and encouraging them to get in contact with us.

Thanks

BigJoe

Thanks Alan.

By direct mail I mean actual post not email but thanks for giving my both options.

So I will change them all to 301's then.

BigJoe